Quotes by Writing An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. Alain de Lille writinganimalmen The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it. Alain Robbe-Grillet writingway Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life. Alain Robbe-Grillet waking-lifemonsterswriting What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Alan Alda actingwritingtrying Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word. Alan Bennett wallnicewriting I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway. Alan Bennett wantwritingbook ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett readingimpossiblewriting I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. Alan Bennett rootsplaywriting Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge. Alan Bradley writingchildrenideas The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology. Alan Chadwick agriculturestupiditywriting Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose. Alan Cheuse habitwritingtrying I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it. Alan Cheuse writingfictionthinking I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow. Alan Cohen writingsongideas The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew. Alan Dale writingcharacteryears The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. Alan Dean Foster writingway Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. Alan Dean Foster importantperfectwriting I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note. Alan Dean Foster notessymphonywriting Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. Alan Dean Foster trendswritingtrying There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. Alan Dean Foster matterwritingmean I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. Alan Dean Foster readingwritingmorning«1617181920212223242526»
