Quotes About Writing

Es posible que un relato como este provoque irritación o repulsión, o que sea tachado de mal gusto. El hecho de haber vivido algo, sea lo que sea, otorga el derecho imprescriptible de escribir sobre ello. No existe una verdad inferior. Y si no cuento esta experiencia hasta el final, contribuiré a oscurecer la realidad de las mujeres y me pondré del lado de la dominación masculina del mundo.)

Écrire ainsi me remplit à nouveau d'attente, d'envie de lui. Entretient le désir. François Mitterrand : « La jeunesse, c'est le temps qu'on a devant soi. »

Il se peut qu'un tel récit provoque de l'irritation, ou de la répulsion, soit taxé de mauvais goût. D'avoir vécu une chose, quelle qu'elle soit, donne le droit imprescriptible de l'écrire. Il n'y a pas de vérité inférieure. Et si je ne vais pas au bout de la relation de cette expérience, je contribue à obscurcir la réalité des femmes et je me range du côté de la domination masculine du monde.)

Writing is a way of making people love me, which for me means ceasing to love.

Ver con la imaginación o volver a ver por medio de la memoria es el patrimonio de la escritura.

At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, and all of them die as a result of becoming, or not becoming reality.

My mother- her energy, her constant anxiety too. I feel the same tenseness, but in my writing.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.

They come as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl, and the Waverley pen.

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

I've heard some writers say things like, 'Well, I'm a professional writer. I only start books I know I can finish.' I look at it maybe the other way: I only want to write books I'm not sure I can write.

I had been writing professionally since 1988.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.

I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season.

It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features.