“I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.” WritingChildrenLongWantedWaitingSupportLong TimeMost Wanted Author:Margaret Mahy
“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.” NeedsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookIdeasHandsMightWould BeLanguageSupportViolenceFailingTeachingMiddleExpressionKissingAdultsTreatsCommittedLikesAbsurdGradesAppropriateCitizenshipTopicsOccasionalOrientationValidationExplicitHolding HandsBad WritingBad Language Author:Rick Riordan
“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.” ThinkingWayWritingStillsReadingBehindsKnownPrinciplesSupportMovementPositionJudgmentToughMethodDefinitionsAppearanceDiscussionAnalysisPenetrateObjectionsFacadeCovertThink For YourselfClose Reading Author:John Taylor Gatto
“Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.” ShouldWritingTwoFactsLordSupportBrotherHonorOffersDemandPraiseIslamAncestorShould IPearlsFountainCongratulationsJewelsBeltsApostlesMuhammadWardrobeExertionFelicityTwo Brothers Author:Aurangzeb
“Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified.” WritingBookFoundNamesCitiesSupportPiecesMountainEvidenceRiversLettersRuinsDocumentsCoinsMonumentOne PieceLarge CitiesTopography Author:Dave Hunt
“There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.” ThinkingWayWritingKindArtMatterWould BeTogetherSupportStandardsPressureNo Matter WhatStatementsUnfairArbitraryBlanketSexistHigh StandardsDisingenuous Author:Mindy Kaling
“You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.” IfsWritingReasonCharacterHelpingSupportSettingSettingsPhiladelphia Author:Lisa Scottoline
“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.” ThinkingWritingArtBookWould BeEarthTogetherArtistLanguageSupportAirSubjectsStyleInvisibleThoughtfulAttachmentExterior Author:Gustave Flaubert
“I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.” IfsWritingLongSaidJobsSongSupportMomMy MomCrushWorking ItHanging OutWriting SongsSupport YouStinky Author:Rufus Wainwright
“It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.” WorldWritingChildrenProblemAbleEffortSupportKnowingTeacherImagineStudentsProjectsFoundationComplexesAbsurdOur WorldImagine ThatLiteracyComplex Problems Author:Isabel Allende
“Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You need to learn how to be a marketer just as much as you need to get past your influences and develop your unique prose voice. And you can't do it alone. You need a strong emotional support system to help cope with the frustrations and setbacks.” NeedsWritingArtHelpingPastStrongVoiceSupportInfluenceEmotionalSkillsUniqueAreasCraftsProseFrustrationMultiplePublicationSetbackMarketersSupport SystemsEmotional SupportStrong Emotional Author:Brian Hodge
“What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.” ShouldWritingBookSeemsWould BeEarthTogetherBeautifulSupportStyleDependsDependentVoidSuspended Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingI CanOrderSexInterestSupportGroupsResearchPhonesIllnessTopicsForumsSupport Groups Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.” WayWritingStoriesUseOrderLanguageGivenHalfFictionSupportStyleMassAddBest WayMagazinesProseCentsEarningPurpleEnglish LanguageVerbsTagAdjectivesWriting StyleAdverbs Author:Tom Johnson
“Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.” WritingChildrenPlayMotherThreeImaginationSupportFourFrontsHusbandCreatingSaintGrandmotherNeighborhoodArmstrong Author:Franny Armstrong
“I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.” IfsNeedsWritingReasonUseHappensUsedHeavenHoursSilenceSupportHellAliveImpossibleHugeDrinkCreaturesEmptyLettersThrownBalancedGlancesTemperamentImposingRainyRainy DayInexorable Author:May Sarton
“A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.” PeopleWantWritingPersonsHouseCareersSupportHugePressesReleaseCopiesPublishingPercentagesPress ReleasePublishing House Author:Emily Gould
“The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?” WayWritingKindFactsLastsSupportCreativeStudyMinutesCollegeBedCreative WritingMidwestLast MinuteBingeDuress Author:Lena Dunham
“I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.” ThinkingWritingLongTogetherStuffTermSupportElementsManagementLong TermTime Management Author:Scott M. Gimple
“I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write.” MenWritingLittlesPoliticalFightingSupportTeamLoversOrganizationFeministPostsOne ManAcademia Author:Betty Dodson
“When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.” WritingArtStillsBigsLeftWaitingPaySupportFiguresHugeHabitLuckyBillsTheatre Author:Debra Dean