“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.” WorldWritingTwoCharacterEyeTogetherSeeingHonestySympathySeeing The World Author:Tom Perrotta
“I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.” IfsWritingTogetherNovelSeeingBelieverObsessionGatheringGathering Together Author:Scarlett Thomas
“I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.” WritingLanguageSeeingSceneVisualsTranslateCanvasMy ThoughtsJunkie Author:Marianne Wiggins
“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsTogetherSongSeeingFitHealthyShapesRiversChordsFoldsLennon Author:Andrew Dost
“Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.” WantWritingTryingSelfSeeingPaintPortraitsSelf Portrait Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingMeanUseFeelingsCertainAttitudeSeeingInfluenceSubjectsStyleProduceReaderDeterminationAtmosphere Author:Randall Jarrell