Quotes by Writing If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write. Asne Seierstad writingbookway There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book. Asne Seierstad differentwritingbook Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. Assia Djebar feministfearwriting Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins. Assia Djebar youthlanguagewriting For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website? Astra Taylor editorswritingkids I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. Astrid Lindgren miraclewritingchildren And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me. Astrid Lindgren writingbookchildren Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again. Athol Fugard disappointmentwritingthinking The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery. Athol Fugard kindplaywriting How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown. Athol Fugard darkwritingbeach I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write. Athol Fugard giving-upwritinglying I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant. Athol Fugard whitewritingthinking For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue. Athol Fugard issueswritingbelieve Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page. Athol Fugard writingnightthinking When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum. Atom Egoyan mindwritingcharacter The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set. Atom Egoyan differentwriting I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. Atom Egoyan voiceplaywriting I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you." Atticus Shaffer daughterwritingson Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going. Atul Gawande writingtryingthinking Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness. Atul Gawande degreeswritingthinking«113114115116117118119120121122123»
