#writing

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#i think #nonsense #people #people say #say

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#copying #done #encyclopedia #had #hardest

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. ↗

— Stephen King

#being #home #i #i can #pass

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. ↗

— Stephen King

#anything #best #beyond #comes #creation

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. ↗

— Stephen King

#been #cannot #done #else #force

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #becomes #comfortable #could #eclipse

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#anything #beautiful #god #handwriting #lose

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#anything #bluntly #commentary #going #i

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of what others might say or think about it ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#diversity #living-life-to-the-fullest #travel #writing #experience

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #down #fast #five #had