Quotes by Writing No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened. Barbara Rose lightupliftingwriting I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one. Barbara Taylor Bradford writingadventurebook I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. Barbara Taylor Bradford eightwritingthinking An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. Barbara Tuchman essentialssoundwriting Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. Barbara Tuchman satisfyingsentenceswriting I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. Barbara Tuchman conditionswriting I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. Barbara Tuchman pageswantwriting If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity. Barbara Tuchman degreestakenwriting I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' Barbra Streisand wishplaywriting In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive. Barbra Streisand writingsongpeople The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out. Barney Frank gayrightswriting Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words. Baron de Montesquieu simplicitywritingfacts They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects. Baron de Montesquieu carewritingattention I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. Baron de Montesquieu sufferingwritingbook A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. Baron de Montesquieu stylewritingpeople A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. Baron de Montesquieu speakwritingmen As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on. Baron Vaughn writingi-like-youmoving Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. Barrett Wendell paragraphrevisionwriting The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing. Barry B. Longyear humansgoalwriting About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction. Barry B. Longyear writingbookmoving«127128129130131132133134135136137»
