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Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.Collection: Writing
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.Collection: Writing
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.Collection: Writing
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.Collection: Writing
What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.Collection: Writing
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.Collection: Writing
I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.Collection: Writing
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.Collection: Writing
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.Collection: Writing
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.Collection: Writing
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.Collection: Writing
He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.Collection: Writing
Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.Collection: Writing
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.Collection: Writing
I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.Collection: Writing
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.Collection: Writing
I'm only really alive when I'm writing.Collection: Writing
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.Collection: Writing
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.Collection: Writing
I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.Collection: Writing
I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.Collection: Writing
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.Collection: Writing
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.Collection: Writing
[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.Collection: Writing
I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.Collection: Writing
I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.Collection: Writing
I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.Collection: Writing
I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.Collection: Writing
The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.Collection: Writing
I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.Collection: Writing
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.Collection: Writing
If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.Collection: Writing
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.Collection: Writing
People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.Collection: Writing
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.Collection: Writing
And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.Collection: Writing
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.Collection: Writing
The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.Collection: Writing
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.Collection: Writing
Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.Collection: Writing
You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.Collection: Writing
I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.Collection: Writing
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.Collection: Writing
I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.Collection: Writing
With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.Collection: Writing
What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.Collection: Writing
The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.Collection: Writing
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentratingCollection: Writing
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.Collection: Writing