“I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.” FeelsWritingWarKnowingIssuesCollegeIraqIraq War Author:Sarah Stillman
“I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.” WayFeelsWritingStoriesWorryNovelKnowingToo MuchKnowing Too Much Author:Dan Chaon
“My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.” WritingStuffParentKnowingSentencesGrandmotherMy GrandmotherChillNotebookDrawersDeath Sentence Author:Aaron Brookner
“I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is everything, so pick a good one." You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.” ThinkingNeedsWritingLooksBookEndsStrongAttitudeKnowingDoorsWeekPicksIntentionInstanceSatInternalsVery StrongAttitude Is EverythingDays Of The WeekPower Of Intention Author:Wayne Dyer
“If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.” IfsWritingImportantBookSeemsHappensMovingSongKnowingEvents Author:Amy Ray
“It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.” IfsWritingShowsFeelingsKnowingTakenTablesLovely Author:Peter Morgan
“Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.” WritingHumansMaySometimesMightHappensChoicesNextHuman BeingsKnowingTelevisionEmbraceEpisodesNot KnowingContradictory Author:Aja Naomi King
“To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.” WritingMindPlayCertainCasesKnowingImagineRateFinished Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.” IfsWritingKnowingPagesSitcom Author:Pippa Evans
“We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.” WritingWellsSaidTwoBookTogetherFunBitsWaitingKnowingDoorsMinutesDecidedPatientCoffeeSatEndeavorNot KnowingWriting A BookKateTwo FriendsKnowing What To Do Author:Alison McGhee
“When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.” WritingLongMightMy OwnAcceptingKnowingInvolvedChainsContributionSeatsEtcTestimonyCompetenceSmall Parts Author:Ernest Sosa