Writing One Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

• I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same… — Dawn French
• A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one… — Carolyn Forche
• Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease. — Peter Abelard
• I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day… — Jack Kerouac
• There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even… — Scott Berkun
• I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself.… — David Sedaris
• A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Young-Ha Kim
• Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other. — William Zinsser
• The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day.… — Sheila Bender
• There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content. — Fred Rodell
• The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired… — Gunter Grass
• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. — Dan Simmons
• I wish I could spend six years writing one novel. — Paullina Simons
• I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing… — Ned Beauman
• Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
• Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing -… — Katherine Mansfield
• One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish… — George R. R. Martin
• Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative… — Rick Riordan
• I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith
• What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in… — Thomas Wolfe

Who Wrote These Writing One Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 31 Writing One Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 1 Writing One Quote by Kathryn Lasky
• 1 Writing One Quote by Jasari
• 1 Writing One Quote by Dawn French
• 1 Writing One Quote by Carolyn Forche
• 1 Writing One Quote by Peter Abelard
• 1 Writing One Quote by Jack Kerouac
• 1 Writing One Quote by Scott Berkun
• 1 Writing One Quote by David Sedaris
• 1 Writing One Quote by Young-Ha Kim
• 1 Writing One Quote by William Zinsser
• 1 Writing One Quote by Sheila Bender
• 1 Writing One Quote by Fred Rodell
• 1 Writing One Quote by Gunter Grass
• 1 Writing One Quote by Dan Simmons
• 1 Writing One Quote by Paullina Simons
• 1 Writing One Quote by Ned Beauman
• 1 Writing One Quote by Matthew Tobin Anderson
• 1 Writing One Quote by Katherine Mansfield
• 1 Writing One Quote by George R. R. Martin
• 1 Writing One Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 Writing One Quote by Patti Smith
• 1 Writing One Quote by Thomas Wolfe
• 1 Writing One Quote by Lew Wallace
• 1 Writing One Quote by Yukio Mishima
• 1 Writing One Quote by Gertrude Stein