Quotes About Writing

Shankman did something unconventional. He booked a round-trip business-class ticket to Tokyo. He wrote during the whole flight to Japan, drank an espresso in the business class lounge once he arrived in Japan, then turned around and flew back, once again writing the whole way—arriving back in the States only thirty hours after he first left with a completed manuscript now in hand. "The trip cost $4,000 and was worth every penny," he explained.

he would spend two hours of undistracted writing time in his private office.

novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a piece for the Guardian calling Twitter a "coercive development" in the literary world,

Martin's axiom, however, I dashed off a blog post that introduced his idea to my readers.5 "Sure,

If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. [If I instead get interrupted a lot] what replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time … there is a bunch of e-mail messages that I have sent out to individual persons.

Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet connection.

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoyLaughter at the right moment, over the wine.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

L'universo esprimerà se stesso fin tanto che qualcuno potrà dire "io leggo dunque esso scrive

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

L'amour, c'est un roman que quelqu'un écrit sur vous.

We are all telling the same story. When writing about race, there can perhaps be precious little wholly fresh revelation. As with writing about motherhood. It has been the same story for as long as anyone can remember.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

I always tried to write a story in such a manner that I wouldn't mind buying it myself.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.

E?ti considerat geniu nu numai prin ceea ce ai scris, ci ?i prin ceea ce ai evitat s? scrii.

?tiu c? prin ceea ce scriu nu pot schimba o lume gre?it?, dar pot schimba atitudinea gre?it? a lumii fa?? de mine.

MOST BIG BESTSELLERS of the past deserve to be relegated to the damp bookshelves of guest bedrooms in country houses, but Thy Neighbor's Wife is not one of them. The writing of it took Talese nine years, and those years show, in the richness of the stories, in the density of detail, in the sweeping, panoramic view he gives us of America in flux.

Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

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