Quotes About Writing

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

You're going to be a writer, he repeated, and you need more education. That's plain. But college isn't the only place to get an education. I have a 'snoggestion.' That was what Mr. Ray always called a particularly good suggestion. I've sounded Mamma out and she approves. How would you like a year abroad?

That affair with Tony helped my writing," she told Tacy. "I mean, it will when I get around to write. It's good for writers to suffer." Tony dropped in often, teasing and affectionate as ever, and quite unaware of having improved her art.

Put black on white.

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read books and stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said about his field, Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I always wanted stories to be real, so I started writing my own.

Stevie, how many stories - It's all one story, Stevie said, and the confidence in her voice surprised her. It was about money then, and it's about money now.

Most high school students have hobbies. Some play music. Some play sports. Some write , or draw or make things. Stephanie ( Stevie ) Bell solves CRIME

It's two thousand pages and nothing happens. It's all terrible. I wrote the first book and then I forgot how to write. It used to be that I would sit and write and I would go into some other world—I could see it all. I was totally in another place. But the second it became something I had to do, something in me broke. It's like I used to know the way to some magical land and I lost the map.

Writing is a lot of sitting down... It's a lot of trying things out and screwing up... It's either amazing or it's the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it goes well, and it's all you think about, and then, it's gone. It's like you're taking a ride down a river really fast, and then all of a sudden, there's no water. You're just sitting in a raft, trying to push it along in the mud. And then you've become me.

Yeah," Nate said. "I guess it would be like that if I could go somewhere in a book. I always wanted stories to be real, so I started writing my own. That seemed to make it more real.

You don't just write something and it's done. You don't just do it. You write parts and you rewrite and you have new ideas and you move stuff. I don't want to talk about the book.

I wrote the first book, and then I forgot how to write. It used to be that I would sit and write, and I would go into some other world--I could see it all. I was totally in another place. But the second it became something I had to do, something in me broke.

I wrote the first book and then I forgot how to write. It used to be that I would sit and write and I would go into some other world—I could see it all. I was totally in another place. But the second it became something I had to do, something in me broke. It's like I used to know the way to some magical land and I lost the map.

Maureen Johnson

They don't want to write - they want the fame, money, and prestige of a writer. If they had an actual, personal desire to write, i.e., if they had something to say - without second-handedness involved, no desire to impress, nor any desire to re-hash some plagiarized ideas - they would have the talent. Men usually have the talent for that which they want to do - if they really want to do it, i.e., if their primary motive is personal, not second-hand.

Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.

Why do you write if you have nothing you want to say?" "To have something to do. Something more disgusting than many other things I could do. And more amusing.

I trust that no one will tell me that men such as I write about don't exist. That this book has been written—and published—is my proof that they do.

As a writer of the Romantic school, I would never be willing to transcribe a "real life" story, which would amount to evading the most important and most difficult part of creative writing: the construction of a plot. Besides, it would bore me to death. My view of what a good autobiography should be is contained in the title that Louis H. Sullivan gave to the story of his life: The Autobiography of an Idea.

Is it possible to write a reverent novel, said Nassrin, and to have it be good?...

Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time.

I went about my way rejoicing, thinking how wonderful it is to be a woman and a writer at the end of the twentieth century.