Quotes by Writing I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents. Anne-Marie Duff worrywritingthinking The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too. Anne-Marie Duff yarnscriptswriting I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing. Anne-Marie Duff painwritingdrama Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! Anne McCaffrey stylevocabularywriting Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. Anne McCaffrey using-wordstogetherwriting I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom Anne McCaffrey certainwritingneeds James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary. Anne McCaffrey verbslimitswriting I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage Anne McCaffrey emotiontoolswriting I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel Anne McCaffrey formstorieswriting I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime Anne McCaffrey writingchildrenschool I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write Anne McCaffrey good-daystupidwriting I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need. Anne McCaffrey writingwarneeds That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there. Anne McCaffrey doewritingbelieve Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to. Anne McCaffrey abuseannoyedwriting What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food. Anne McCaffrey horsedogwriting One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'. Anne Morrow Lindbergh prayermistakewriting In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field. Anne Morrow Lindbergh stresswritingthinking The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think. Anne Morrow Lindbergh writingbeachthinking I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. Anne Morrow Lindbergh powerfuleducationwriting I think best with a pencil in my hand. Anne Morrow Lindbergh writinghandsthinking«8485868788899091929394»
