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Your life is a blank page. You write on it.Collection: Writing
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedomCollection: Writing
In his writings, Patton was shameless about his ambition to woo Lena to be his bride. He detailed the gradual progress he made, playing music for her on his violin, writing her poems, beguiling her with stories, engaging her in conversation. It was clear that he obsessed over her. He knew what he wanted and never relented until she was his.Collection: Writing
It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.Collection: Writing
Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.Collection: Writing
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.Collection: Writing
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.Collection: Writing
It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.Collection: Writing
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.Collection: Writing
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.Collection: Writing
I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.Collection: Writing
If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.Collection: Writing
If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.Collection: Writing
Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obviousCollection: Writing
Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.Collection: Writing
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.Collection: Writing
When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.Collection: Writing
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.Collection: Writing
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.Collection: Writing
The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.Collection: Writing
I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom YorkeCollection: Writing
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.Collection: Writing
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.Collection: Writing
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.Collection: Writing
I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.Collection: Writing
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!Collection: Writing
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.Collection: Writing
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.Collection: Writing
You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.Collection: Writing
I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.Collection: Writing
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.Collection: Writing
I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrongCollection: Writing
After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.Collection: Writing
I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.Collection: Writing
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.Collection: Writing
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.Collection: Writing
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.Collection: Writing
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?Collection: Writing
The Monica Lewinsky scandal was happening at the very time I was writing the West Wing pilot and it was hard, at least for Americans, to look at the White House and think of anything but a punch line. Plus a show about politics, a show that took place in Washington, had just never worked before in American television. So the show was delayed for a year.Collection: Writing
I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.Collection: Writing
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.Collection: Writing
One should use common words to say uncommon thingsCollection: Writing
You don't have to say everything to say something.Collection: Writing
I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.Collection: Writing
Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.Collection: Writing
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.Collection: Writing
I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.Collection: Writing
It is a sin to write this.Collection: Writing
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.Collection: Writing