Quotes by Writing It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices. Brandon Sanderson doctorsreadingwriting Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. Brandon Sanderson readingwantwriting Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. Brandon Sanderson nextwritingbook I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted Brandon Sanderson metalssteelwriting I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson sceneimportantwriting I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours. Brandon Sanderson my-familywritingtwo Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying everything. I'm really trying to write what's in my heart and what I feel without a lot of help in that department. It's about being brave. Brandy Norwood braveheartwriting In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups. Branko Milanovic financewritingpeople I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing. Breece D'J Pancake motherwritingthinking If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful. Brenda Peterson painwritingbeautiful Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to. Brenda Shoshanna honestysimplewriting So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing. Brenda Ueland selfwritingtwo I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. Brenda Ueland creativitywritingchildren Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. Brenda Ueland drawingwritingthinking The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing. Brenda Ueland writingbelievepeople You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right. Brenda Ueland selfwritingbelieve ...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Brenda Ueland feelingswritingpeople I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. Brenda Ueland powerfulwritingchildren You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are. Brenda Ueland honestywritingbelieve ...writing is not a performance but a generosity. Brenda Ueland generosityperformanceswriting«168169170171172173174175176177178»
