Quotes by Writing I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. Barbara Kingsolver realwritingart The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want. Barbara Kingsolver wallignorancewriting Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel. Barbara Kingsolver zerowritingtrying My way of finding a place in this world is to write one. Barbara Kingsolver writingwayworld If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic. Barbara Kingsolver eightwritingthinking I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver awakewritingnight Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. Barbara Kingsolver writinglongbook I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit. Barbara Kingsolver disciplinewritingnight In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising. Barbara Kingsolver writingfactsthinking I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters. Barbara Kingsolver realwritingschool The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. Barbara Kruger teachingpracticewriting Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth. Barbara Marx Hubbard lightearswriting Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me. Barbara Mertz knowingwritingcharacter The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing. Barbara Mertz writingway Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them. Barbara Mertz writingbirdlooks I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read. Barbara Mertz writingbookthinking I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz latterhabitwriting My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money. Barbara Park seniorwritingwitty I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person. Barbara Pym cooksimaginewriting Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. Barbara Pym pleasurekindwriting«126127128129130131132133134135136»
