Quotes by Writing Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. Amy Waldman readingwritingcharacter I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. Amy Waldman coffeepowerfulwriting I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. Amy Waldman writingcharacteryears I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive. Amy Winehouse selfwritingpast Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff. Amy Winehouse kingsstuffwriting I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway. Amy Winehouse saidwantedwriting I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life. Amy Winehouse writingsongtrying I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. Amy Winehouse writing-musicchallengeswriting All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. Amy Winehouse girlfriendwritingsong I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better. Amy Winehouse feel-betterwritingsong I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know. Amy Winehouse young-womenyoungwriting I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it. Amy Winehouse boredwritingsong If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you. Amy Winehouse niceifswriting When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more. Ana Castillo cuttingwritingthinking I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood...and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail. Ana Castillo successfulwritingfall My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will. Ana Monnar teachingwritingbook You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Anais Nin wavefeelingswriting The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. Anais Nin inspirational-lifememorablewriting That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe. Anais Nin fusionessentialswriting It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. Anais Nin movementemotionalwriting«5455565758596061626364»
