“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
“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.” WantWritingI CanIdeasWaitingPaintingActivitySittingStaringProductiveTrailersHurry Up And Wait Author:Lucas Neff
“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.” IfsKnowsNeedsWritingFirstsOrderWaitingHoursKnownFateWrittenPagesSentencesInvisibleChaptersInvisible Things Author:Lynda Barry
“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.” IfsWritingSometimesEyeAbleHateWaitingSticksConvincedPencils Author:Ron Rash
“When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.” WritingIdeasHardDreamRememberWaitingAdviceNegativeSilentDataCapabilityGatheringKipling Author:Rose Tremain
“No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.” KnowsWritingBookLastsWaitingPagesTestsDna Author:Joseph Wambaugh
“If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.” IfsFeelsWritingLittlesLongIdeasMatterWaitingSolitudeLong TimeGuiltyGood IdeasInsignificantIdleness Author:Brenda Ueland
“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.” WritingSometimesSongWaitingDeliveryWriting Songs Author:Alex Turner
“I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.” WritingI CanWaitingGalaxyGuardian Author:Stan Lee
“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.” WritingStuffWaitingHoursCommonActingScriptsTimingImmediacy Author:Lukas Haas
“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.” IfsKnowsFeelsShouldWritingWellsLongTwoHappensWaitingActingCrazyStageMonthsImpatientTwo Months Author:Erland Josephson
“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?” ThinkingWritingYearsPlayHappensWaitingPiecesExpressionAnd LoveThirtySincereComposerThirty Years Author:Charles Mingus
“Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.” IfsWritingI CanWaitingAreasBackgroundsRitualAirports Author:Neil Gaiman
“Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.” WorldWritingWaitingLibertyCreedsOne Word Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.” WritingUsedWaitingVoiceDarkEchoes Author:Laird Barron
“Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!” WayShouldWritingI CanPlayWaitingPermissionMy FutureHmm Author:Brit Marling
“A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.” WritingWellsKindImportantWaitingWaterAmountImportant ThingsDryPumpsRefills Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingI CanWaitingMetsResearchAdvantageAround The WorldFascinating Author:Simon Winchester
“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.” WorldWritingHeartSeemsFallWaitingMillionsTelevisionPoetTerribleWestStaringBombsTemporaryDeclineShelterExplosionsRockets Author:Randall Jarrell