Writing Quote by Kit Reed Download Open image “Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.” — Kit Reed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. — Mitski Copy Share Image
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever. — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways. — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.” — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?” — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I dream in color; it's always a movie and sometimes I'm in it, as myself. — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation… — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in… — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image