Quotes by Writing I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. Alistair Cooke writingtalkingyears I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. Alistair Maclean bornenjoywriting I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. Alistair MacLeod storieswritingthinking Writers write about what worries them. Alistair MacLeod worrywriting When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency. Alix Kates Shulman prom-queenqueenswriting It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind. Alix Kates Shulman mindfeelingswriting I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there really was such a job. And if he could just write a poem that incorporated everything he felt and suspected and hoped for from America that he would have the position. Allan Gurganus writingjobsbelieve Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. Allan Gurganus shapeswritingfall Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. Allan Gurganus eventswritingmean I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank. Allan Loeb scriptswritingideas I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years. Allan Loeb scriptswritingyears I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. Allan Sloan sarcasmsarcasticwriting When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice. Allan Sloan writingjobsyears I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama. Allan Stratton writingcharacterdrama If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies. Allan W. Eckert writingphilosophyideas Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. Allegra Goodman greatnesswritingforget Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head. Allegra Goodman love-youwritingbook For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism, I found my own themes independent of the New York experience and the immigrant experience. Allegra Goodman independentreligiouswriting In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religious point of view - because belief does not anger or embarrass me. Allegra Goodman religiouswritingpeople I do think some games are works of art, although their medium is visual rather than verbal. Both games and novels allow the reader/player to become a protagonist in the theater of the imagination. Both build worlds. In my opinion, the big difference between game and novel is in narrative structure. Communal role-playing games are open-plan without an end. A novel - at least the kind I write - has a closed structure with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I like that closed structure, and I feel I can say more with it. Allegra Goodman playerwritingart«4243444546474849505152»
