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If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.Collection: Writing
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.Collection: Writing
Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.Collection: Writing
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.Collection: Writing
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.Collection: Writing
Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.Collection: Writing
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.Collection: Writing
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.Collection: Writing
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.Collection: Writing
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.Collection: Writing
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.Collection: Writing
Any negative review you write, they'll say, "Oh, you're being so mean." I think the problem with a lot of criticism is that too many critics either write just description or they write in a Mandarin jargon that only a handful of people can understand, or they write happy criticis - everything is good that they write about. I think that's really not good. I think it's damaged a lot of our critical voices.Collection: Writing
Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, “Only a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person.” Therefore it “has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.Collection: Writing
God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.Collection: Writing
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.Collection: Writing
From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.Collection: Writing
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.Collection: Writing
I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.Collection: Writing
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.Collection: Writing
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.Collection: Writing
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.Collection: Writing
Write while the heat is in you.Collection: Writing
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it.Collection: Writing
I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!Collection: Writing
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.Collection: Writing
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.Collection: Writing
The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.Collection: Writing
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.Collection: Writing
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business.Collection: Writing
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.Collection: Writing
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.Collection: Writing
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.Collection: Writing
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.Collection: Writing
What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.Collection: Writing
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning.Collection: Writing
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.Collection: Writing
People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.Collection: Writing
If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should writeCollection: Writing
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.Collection: Writing
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.Collection: Writing
I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.Collection: Writing
My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I do in the course of my writing is weave a thematic arc of fulfillment. It is my constant theme as a creator.Collection: Writing
Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.Collection: Writing
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.Collection: Writing
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.Collection: Writing
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.Collection: Writing
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.Collection: Writing
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.Collection: Writing
I do not like to write - I like to have written.Collection: Writing