Quotes by Writing To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world. Ann Brashares storieswritingthinking Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something. Ann Brashares writingjobsmean There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through. Ann Brashares doubtwritingideas I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may. Ann Brashares writingideasfall Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. Ann Brashares agewritingcharacter I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our last time just us. See, I can write that down, but I don't think I can say it. I'm not doing this to say goodbye, though I know that has to be part of it. I'm doing it to thank you for all we have had and done and been for one another, to say I love you for making this life of mine what it is. Leaving you is the hardest thing I have to do. But the thing is, the best parts of me are in you, all three of you. You are who I am, and what I cherish in myself stays on in you. Ann Brashares love-youwritinggoodbye Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy. Ann Brashares sisterwritingpeople I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. Ann Coulter writingbookthinking Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully. Ann Goldstein detailswritingmean I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi. Ann Goldstein writingmeanthinking That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity. Ann Goldstein publicitysubjectswriting No one can write like Cheryl Strayed. Ann Hood writing I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell. Ann Hood daughtermotherwriting Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose. Ann Landers nameswritingmorning Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em. Ann Landers wifehusbandwriting A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters. Ann M. Martin couplewritingkids I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write about. A journal is a great source of story starters. Ann M. Martin writingkidsthinking Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you. Ann M. Martin writing If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent. Ann M. Martin editorswritingattention Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead. Ann-Marie MacDonald lefttaskswriting«7172737475767778798081»
