“Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.” WayWritingDifferentEnvironmentParticularMediumsProsePoetry IsCatchingProse Poetry Author:Story Musgrave
“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingTryingSeemsPiecesInfluenceParticularDegreesDetermineAdmireInputCounterproductive Author:Kevin Powers
“I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.” ThinkingWantWritingMadeBookWantedParticular Author:Elizabeth Strout
“And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.” ThinkingWayWritingStoriesFictionParticularUrgencyInevitabilityComedic Author:Karen Russell
“There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.” MenWritingTryingHelpingStrongSacrificeParticularPreparedUrgesYearningPossessed Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.” PeopleWorldWritingCareVoiceStyleParticularReaderStrategyNovelistsEthicalFootnotesLiterary Style Author:Zadie Smith
“I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.” WritingMindBookAudienceParticularPleasePlease Me Author:William Landay
“Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.” WritingTryingKindBookJobsStuffHumilityParticularPagesAll KindsCraftsGood BookLove To Read Author:Stephen Dobyns
“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.” PeopleIfsWritingMayLightFeltCan DoAbilityEffortQualitySuccessfulParticularBottomBeing SuccessfulRecallsTemperature Author:Maxwell Perkins
“The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.” PeopleThinkingWritingHardReasonUsedProcessParticularInstanceReason WhyProgramming Author:Gerald Jay Sussman
“Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.” WritingTryingEndsSongParticularGuitarSpontaneousSequenceChordsHornsSpontaneityImprovisationPlaying Guitar Author:Van Morrison
“A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingMayKnow HowSuccessfulParticularPoetAbsurdEmbarrassingRemarksFinality Author:Randall Jarrell