T Quotes
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“The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.”
“The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.”
“The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end of the 20th century that we didn't have at the beginning, at that time of the Lost Generation of rich white boys, is a mixture. We're now getting gay writers of color, let's say, and women of color being published. This is unprecedented.”
“The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.”
“The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.”
Source: Cat in a Topaz Tango: A Midnight Louie Mystery
“The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.”
“The writer’s life is a life of revisions.”
“The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.”
“The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!”
“The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.”
“The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.”
“The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.”
Source: My Story
“The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.”
“The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.”
“The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.”
“The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.”
“The writing gets easy once your characters trust that you will not only report what they say but convey what they mean and feel.
~ Michael Kent”
Source: Twice Dead: A Lieutenant Beaudry Novel
“The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.”
Source: Small Wonder
“The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of scientific description, but with experiences of nature that impinge upon our moods and emotions, enrich our imagination and reveries, and shape our sense of how we stand in relation to the environing world. In a broad sense of the term, this kind of writing is an exercise in phenomenology, an attempt to render the significance that birds, plants or whatever have for us.”
“The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.”
“The writing, in huge insular majuscule script, is flawless in its regularity and utter control. One can only marvel at the penmanship. It is calligraphic and as exact as printing, and yet it flows and shapes itself into the space available. It sometimes swells and seems to take breath at the ends of lines. The decoration is more extensive and more overwhelming than one could possibly imagine. Virtually every line is embellished with color or ornament.”
Source: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
“The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.”
“The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.”
“The writing is - I'm free of pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing.”
“The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.”
“The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.”
“The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.”
“The writing is amazing because having a hand in creating what you're going to be performing... there's nothing like it. It's always going to be better suited for you. You're always going to know the lines faster, because you wrote it. The writing is so very hard. It's the hardest part of the whole process. In some ways the acting is a lot easier and a lot more fun.”
“The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.”
“The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.”
“The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.”
“The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.”
“The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.”
“The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.”
“The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.”
“The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.”
“The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.”
“The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.”
“The writing is what's most important to me.”
“The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.”
“The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.”
“The writing life doesn't move in a straight line. I've had successes and rejections all along the way, at every stage of my career, and I will continue to do so. Acceptances and rejections don't define me. They're both part of what it means to be a writer. My job is to simply keep doing the work.”
“The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.”
“The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.”
“The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.”
Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.”
“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.”
Source: On Writing