Quotes by Writing I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in. Carol Emshwiller phraseswritingideas Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change. Carol Emshwiller secretwritingmean I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know." Carol Friedman writingpeoplethinking The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like that. You and you partner have to do everything and that's kind of like facing the blank page as a writer. Carol Higgins Clark writingclasscharacter This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome. Carol S. Dweck growthwritingpeople Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find. Carol Shields wantwritingbook History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. Carol Tavris memoirvictimwriting The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it. Carole King incrediblesinspirationwriting I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing. Carole King feel-goodwritingpeople I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor. Carole King influencewriting If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing? Carole Maso sufferingdesirewriting One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. Carole Maso brainwritingtwo I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. Caroline B. Cooney rejectedstorieswriting If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. Caroline B. Cooney realwritingway Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published Caroline B. Cooney eightwritingbook I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. Caroline B. Cooney writingkidsthinking I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. Caroline B. Cooney agonizingdifficultwriting Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano. Caroline Corr pianoyeahwriting As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. Caroline Gordon great-menwellswriting I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process. Caroline Kennedy kindprocesswriting«198199200201202203204205206207208»
