Quotes About Writing

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.

I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.

It's really important when we're writing our opinions to be transparent about what our decision method in the case is and how we get from Point A to B to C in the analysis.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

Escribir es un modo de localizar mi hambre, y el hambre no es sino un vacío.

Look at him, he's slain another dangling participle.

Ovako formulirana, na papiru, njegova se odluka doima stvarnijom. Jednako tako je i sidejama, postaju jasnije tek kad ih napiše. No zaboravio je kako ljudi nisu ideje, rije?i upu?ene njoj mogu izazvati posljedice.

Zar je zaista povjerovao da bih napisala memoare? Je li papir dovoljno izdržljiv materijal da bih mu povjerila svoj žvot? Bojim se da bi se tinta razlila po njemu ili bi to bile suze. Nema tog papira, Alberte, koji bi izdržao moju bol.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

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A writer cannot be a Pollyanna. He is in the business of writing what other people think but don't say

A writer has to squelch his emotional reactions consciously in order to get enough distance to use them in his work as a writer.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

The main flaw in most love scenes is similar to that of the main flaws in all other scenes: the reader's emotions have been insufficiently considered by the writer. The primary erogenous zone is in the head, and that's where the reader experiences writing.

the single characteristic that most makes a difference in the success of an article or nonfiction book is the author's courage in revealing normally unspoken things about himself or his society. It takes guts to be a writer

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

They were coming again, those words insistent as his hands had been, pounding inside me, demanding their time and place. I relaxed as my hands moved across the paper like one possessed.