Quotes About Writing

Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.' 'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said. "Isn't that normally just a cocktail olive lodged there?" Olivier asked. "Once," Ruth admitted. "Wrote quite a good poem before I coughed it up.

It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued.

God, that means she's written more books than she's read,' said Ruth.

I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don't have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I'll be a bloke, they don't have to make sense either.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

I've been writing seriously since the 90s and my first manuscript was a "hysterical." I was in love with Vikings back then but somehow my Vikings sounded like Navy SEALs on horses. I guess my love for Navy SEALs can be traced back to those Viking sea marauders!

I want to thank the many, many readers who have been so supportive of me all these years. There were a few years, because of the economy, when I had to put off writing as I traveled around for my roofing job (5am - 7pm of travel and roofing took a big chunk out of my brain) and I'm grateful that my readers have been understanding about my situation when I explained it to them. They've consistently emailed me encouraging words, telling me they'd wait for my next books.

I write from emotion. It's important to remember that even though one may be writing about something totally out of one's experience, one should insert a thread of familiar emotion through it. I often start out with the main character's state of mind in my stories because it sets the tone to the whole book.

I have no control over certain elements of my story. I can nudge my characters/story line there, but can't make them behave the way I think they should, no matter how I try.

La novità è invece nella larga esemplificazione da testi scritti, garanzia di una descrizione fondata sull'uso

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

I find that as soon as I put words and ideas onto paper in my notebook, or type them into my computer, they begin to gather to themselves more images, more words and ideas. As I write I have the sensation of being at the center of a small vortex of enlarging connections, as in the poem above, and my pen or my fingers on the keyboard move faster and faster to keep pace with them.

My dominant right hand wrote the Inner Parent voices. My Inner Child spoke through my left hand.

Pour moi, écrit Pathios, je sais que, souvent, des écrits d'auteurs différents offrent une grande ressemblance et que des écrits de caractère différent remontent à un seul auteur. Car les ressources humaines ne sont pas toujours inaltérables ni immuables, pas plus dans les lettres que dans les autres domaines.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters

I suppose I also have a fondness for Cities because it was my first published novel - writing it got me over what had, up until that time, seemed like an insurmountable hurdle - the writing and completion of a novel. Oh, I'd begun several novels over the years, but never had the staying power or the faith in my own work to finish one.

He who cares to go to the trouble of demonstrating the uselessness of index numbers for monetary theory and the concrete tasks of monetary policy will be able to select a good proportion of his weapons from the writings of the very men who invented them.