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As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.Collection: Writing
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.Collection: Writing
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.Collection: Writing
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.Collection: Writing
It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.Collection: Writing
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.Collection: Writing
In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.Collection: Writing
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.Collection: Writing
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.Collection: Writing
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.Collection: Writing
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.Collection: Writing
If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or accurate, to me, to write about "being [abstraction]." I think there are some other reasons.Collection: Writing
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.Collection: Writing
And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.Collection: Writing
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.Collection: Writing
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.Collection: Writing
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.Collection: Writing
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.Collection: Writing
I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.Collection: Writing
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.Collection: Writing
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.Collection: Writing
As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.Collection: Writing
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.Collection: Writing
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.Collection: Writing
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.Collection: Writing
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?Collection: Writing
You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.Collection: Writing
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.Collection: Writing
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.Collection: Writing
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.Collection: Writing
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.Collection: Writing
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.Collection: Writing
What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.Collection: Writing
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.Collection: Writing
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.Collection: Writing
Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.Collection: Writing
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.Collection: Writing
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.Collection: Writing
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.Collection: Writing
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustratingCollection: Writing
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.Collection: Writing
Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.Collection: Writing
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.Collection: Writing
There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.Collection: Writing
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.Collection: Writing
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.Collection: Writing
Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.Collection: Writing
while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.Collection: Writing
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.Collection: Writing