Writing Quotes
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Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.
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It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
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A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
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And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.
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In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.
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All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
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I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known.
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Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.
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Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.
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I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
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Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
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I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
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I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.
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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' - that's the book that started me writing.
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Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.
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I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.
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I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
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If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.
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When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.
