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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.Collection: Writing
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.Collection: Writing
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.Collection: Writing
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.Collection: Writing
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.Collection: Writing
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.Collection: Writing
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.Collection: Writing
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.Collection: Writing
You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.Collection: Writing
A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.Collection: Writing
I apologize to all of my colleagues who've been writing up storms, but as a culture we've essentially put ourselves into a position where Mark Zuckerberg can say, "Privacy as a social norm is no longer relevant," and a lot of people don't blink an eye.Collection: Writing
Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.Collection: Writing
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.Collection: Writing
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.Collection: Writing
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.Collection: Writing
Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.Collection: Writing
People who think well, write wellCollection: Writing
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.Collection: Writing
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.Collection: Writing
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.Collection: Writing
I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.Collection: Writing
In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.Collection: Writing
Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.Collection: Writing
Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.Collection: Writing
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?Collection: Writing
I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.Collection: Writing
I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.Collection: Writing
I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.Collection: Writing
Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.Collection: Writing
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.Collection: Writing
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.Collection: Writing
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.Collection: Writing
All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film... if you like my writing, you'll like this film. If you don't, you won't like the film. It's pretty faithful to - it's a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose.Collection: Writing
I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way I write is about life and is quite truthful, and there is a kind of brutal side to the relationship, and to the feelings, that makes it somewhat painful, but I think it's a very intense portrait of the relationship of two people. And a bit about what people feel like when they're alone, because it all takes place in one day, and during the day, they spend a lot of time alone in their different - you get to imagine what their fantasy lives are like.Collection: Writing
My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.Collection: Writing
Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!Collection: Writing
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.Collection: Writing
Learn to write by writingCollection: Writing
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.Collection: Writing
Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.Collection: Writing
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.Collection: Writing
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.Collection: Writing
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.Collection: Writing
There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.Collection: Writing
A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.Collection: Writing
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.Collection: Writing
I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.Collection: Writing
I write to cover a frame of ideas.Collection: Writing