Quotes by Writing Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. Anita Loos talentactingwriting I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting. Anita Loos agewritingfather I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength. Anita Nair writingcharacterbelieve Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories. Anita Sarkeesian realherowriting I really want to help write women back into history. Anita Sarkeesian wantwritinghelping For almost a quarter of a century, Teen Ink has been encouraging young people to write - and then has published those pieces. These heartfelt essays and poems explore the issues faced by teenagers today. I applaud their efforts because they not only help young people deal with their own lives but also encourage the budding authors of the next generation. Anita Silvey issuesteenagerwriting The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated. Anjan Sundaram differentwritingmean Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. Anjelica Huston paintinghardestwriting He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme. Ann Aguirre hatewritingdirty My mother would write letters when I was away at camp and say, 'There's an Ann-shaped space around the house. Nobody fills an Ann-shaped space except an Ann.' I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole. Ann B. Davis spacemotherwriting Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock. Ann Beattie rocksstorieswriting There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect. Ann Beattie differentwritingmight I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. Ann Beattie homewritingtravel I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. Ann Beattie mysterious-thingswritingthinking While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. Ann Beattie humorouswritingthinking You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie selfwritingpeople Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. Ann Beattie assuminglimitswriting I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go. Ann Brashares writingcharacterbelieve I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. Ann Brashares comedywritingcharacter As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages. Ann Brashares teenagegirlwriting«7071727374757677787980»
