Quotes of: Write Keyword

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

James Avery

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

Julia Leigh

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

Jim Piddock

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

Jacqueline Susann

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

James Schuyler

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

Laila Robins

After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

Noel Clarke

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Kevin Powers

I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice McDermott noted that the most difficult thing about becoming a writer was convincing herself that she had an...

Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution

It was unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself about her, not to have to write to her, not to be scheming and devising opportunities of being alone with her. Sometimes, of an evening, whe...

David Copperfield

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. In other words, that she's fr...

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a novel I’m not going to hand walk you through each scene. Avid readers tend to have very high IQ’s so I’m constantly aware of,...

Darkness Left Undone

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each othe...

The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passag...

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the produc...

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books tha...

A Girl of the Limberlost

What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that it's the closest thing to being God you're ever going to get. All the decisions are yours. You decide when the sun comes up. You decide wh...

The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part of the United States of America. It sprang from the German tongue spoken by the Teutons, who came over to Britain aft...

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away...

High Fidelity

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to ...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that i...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life