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A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.Collection: Writing
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.Collection: Writing
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.Collection: Writing
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.Collection: Writing
I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.Collection: Writing
We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.Collection: Writing
I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.Collection: Writing
Write a living will. And become an organ donor!Collection: Writing
You want to write something as good as what you've read.Collection: Writing
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.Collection: Writing
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.Collection: Writing
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.Collection: Writing
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.Collection: Writing
A writer's work is the product of laziness.Collection: Writing
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.Collection: Writing
The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.Collection: Writing
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.Collection: Writing
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.Collection: Writing
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first placeCollection: Writing
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.Collection: Writing
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.Collection: Writing
I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.Collection: Writing
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.Collection: Writing
I don't have the patience to sit and write.Collection: Writing
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.Collection: Writing
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.Collection: Writing
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.Collection: Writing
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.Collection: Writing
In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.Collection: Writing
I hang my laundry on the line when I write.Collection: Writing
I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?Collection: Writing
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.Collection: Writing
My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.Collection: Writing
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.Collection: Writing
I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.Collection: Writing
I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns. I wrote tiny little slices of life, sent them off to The Sewanee Review, and they always sent them back. For the first 10 years I was published, I'd say, "I'm a writer disguised as a mystery writer." But then I look back, and well, maybe I'm a mystery writer. You tend to go where you're liked, so when the mysteries were being published, I did more of them.Collection: Writing
For a long while, I found Parker impossible. He went away for 23 years. I tried to bring him back a few times, and I sort of figured out where he came from, why he went away, and why he came back. The thing that I have to tap into for Parker is in some way the outsider. If I can tap into the outsider, I can write about Parker, and if I can't, I can't.Collection: Writing
Lunatics are writers whose works write them.Collection: Writing
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.Collection: Writing
Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.Collection: Writing
A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.Collection: Writing
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.Collection: Writing
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.Collection: Writing
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worthCollection: Writing
Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.Collection: Writing
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.Collection: Writing
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.Collection: Writing
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.Collection: Writing
What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.Collection: Writing