About Writing Quotes
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.
Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.
There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.
I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.
But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive.
... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.
The Intuitive one can read where the Master doesn't write and listen where the Master doesn't talk.
I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.
When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.
When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I come as close as I can.
If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.
Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.
... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.