Quotes by Writing Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own. Caroline Kennedy donewritingbook I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. Caroline Lawrence romemachineswriting I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a year and -- using them -- I wrote the first draft of The Thieves of Ostia in two weeks. I go back to his teachings before each new book I write. Each time I study Truby, I learn something new. Caroline Lawrence teachingwritingbook I write about the things that haunt or obsess me. Caroline Leavitt writing I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions! Caroline Leavitt good-relationshipappreciatewriting Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd. Caroline Polachek crowdsfestivalswriting I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon. Carolyn Chute cuttingwritingtree If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting. Carolyn Chute upsetcertainwriting The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know. Carolyn Chute darkwritingnight Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission. Carolyn Chute prayerdreamwriting We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation. Carolyn Coman dotsdeeperwriting A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish. Carolyn Forche piecesdonewriting Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books. Carolyn Hart heartwritingbook What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality. Carolyn Heilbrun storieswritingreality Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138] Carolyn Heilbrun strugglewritingbelieve You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do. Carolyn Kizer writingpeopleschool Poets are interested mostly in death and commas. Carolyn Kizer craftspoetwriting I write about one of my bills that says pharmacists cannot be doctors. They cannot determine what they will or will not sell, and you find that many pharmacists will not sell birth control. The movement has gone not just against the access of reproductive rights to abortion; the movement has gone to birth control. They're going after birth control. Carolyn Maloney abortionbirthwriting I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away. Carolyn Parkhurst choicesperfectwriting Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version. Carolyn See womenstorieswriting«199200201202203204205206207208209»
