Quotes by Writing I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact opposite - it's very constricted, all having to conform to a form. My sense of fiction writing is not to think about rules but to be driven by the characters and their stories. I often ask myself what's at risk here, who needs what, and how are they going to get it. There has to be a reason for the reader to stop living their own life and start reading your book. A.M. Homes readingwritingbook The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family. A.M. Homes strugglewritingbook I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action. A.M. Homes compassionwritingcharacter You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say. A.M. Homes writingthinking Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas? Ama Ata Aidoo ordinarywritingmemories Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me. Ama Ata Aidoo foundwonderwriting Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult. Ama Ata Aidoo writingideasinteresting I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young. Ama Ata Aidoo youngwantedwriting The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him? Amado Nervo circleswritingmen Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed. Amadou Hampate Ba lightwritingmen I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false. Amanda Bynes writingrunninglaughing 'Now I've tasted chocolate I'm not going back'. That's a great line. That's not me, that's all the writing. I mean it's like it doesn't matter who plays it, it's a great role. It's such a funny, tongue in cheek kind of great role. Amanda Bynes playwritingmean I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I as capable, I started writing. I filled notebooks and notebooks until I got my first computer when I was 11. It never really occurred to me that I would do anything else. Amanda Hocking notebookwritingkids I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done. Amanda Hocking donewritingideas Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead. Amanda Hocking homewritingschool I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago. Amanda Hocking takenwritingschool I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot. Amanda Hocking writinglongbook When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. Amanda Hocking storieswritingkids I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote "The Rose," and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything. Amanda McBroom rosewritingideas My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel. Amanda McKittrick Ros peculiarwritingfeels«4647484950515253545556»
