Quotes by Writing Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. Anthony Powell hard-workcreativewriting The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. Anthony Powell answerswritingideas Writing is above all a question of instinct. Anthony Powell instinctwriting The President of the United States again, whether you guys like the guy, you dislike the guy, he's the smartest person that I've ever worked for. So let Vanity Fair write about that, I honestly don't care. He has intuition, he has judgement and he has a temperament in a way that I have never seen. Anthony Scaramucci judgementguywriting The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid journalismwritingsometimes I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. Anthony Storr writingbookway So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us. Anthony Storr inspirationmindwriting If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train. Anthony Storr creativewritingmen Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form. Anthony Swofford jointswritinglong There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. Anthony Trollope readingeducationwriting Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. Anthony Trollope threewritingmen This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written. Anthony Trollope twentieswritingworld My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best. Anthony Trollope writingmenbook When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. Anthony Trollope writingmenbook Easy reading requires hard writing. Anthony Trollope readingeasywriting It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. Anthony Trollope snakeswritingart The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. Anthony Trollope editorshabitwriting When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. Anthony Trollope careendswriting The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. Anthony Trollope naturewritingspring My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life. Anthony best-experiencesbosswriting«9899100101102103104105106107108»
