Re Writing Quotes
I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.
I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
