Quotes by Writing I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. Amos Oz miraclewritingdiscovery The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister! How terrible I was! How right and wonderful you were! Please forgive me! Let's hug and love each other from now until the rest of eternity!" This is not the kind of reconciliation I write about; I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises. Amos Oz brotherheartwriting The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams. Amos Oz dreamwritingcountry I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words. Amos Oz hebrewwriting I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. Amos Oz flavorshapeswriting My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. Amos Oz musicalimportantwriting I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it. Amos Oz marsplanetswriting Don't write about that which you don't know. Amos Oz knowswriting That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Amos Oz young-writerswritingadvice The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams. Amos Oz dreamwritingcountry Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me. Amy Bloom differencespracticewriting There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. Amy Bloom good-writersliarswriting Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless. Amy Bloom griefwritinglying My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. Amy Bloom avoidingprocesswriting Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last. Amy Carmichael lastsdoewriting Get in the habit of writing down three things you're grateful for every day. Studies show that in a two-minute span of time, done over 21 days in a row, you can actually rewire your brain. Your brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world for the positive versus the negative. Seeing things in a frame of positivity and gratitude is a muscle. You can strengthen this muscle through practice. Amy Chan gratitudegratefulwriting Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Amy Clampitt inspiredmadwriting Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes. Amy Clampitt ragewritingsometimes Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. Amy Dickinson womenwritinglove-is I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that. Amy Grant colorwritingpeople«5051525354555657585960»
