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Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.Collection: Writing
In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.Collection: Writing
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.Collection: Writing
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.Collection: Writing
I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.Collection: Writing
One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.Collection: Writing
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.Collection: Writing
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.Collection: Writing
If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.Collection: Writing
There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.Collection: Writing
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.Collection: Writing
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.Collection: Writing
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.Collection: Writing
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.Collection: Writing
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.Collection: Writing
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.Collection: Writing
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!Collection: Writing
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.Collection: Writing
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.Collection: Writing
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.Collection: Writing
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.Collection: Writing
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.Collection: Writing
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.Collection: Writing
Dialogue should show the relationships among people.Collection: Writing
... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.Collection: Writing
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character. It must advance plot. During dialogue, the characters confront one another. The confrontation is in itself an occasion. Each one of these occasions, throughout the novel, is unique.Collection: Writing
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.Collection: Writing
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.Collection: Writing
When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.Collection: Writing
It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.Collection: Writing
The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.Collection: Writing
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.Collection: Writing
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.Collection: Writing
The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.Collection: Writing
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.Collection: Writing
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.Collection: Writing
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.Collection: Writing
We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.Collection: Writing
You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.Collection: Writing
I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.Collection: Writing
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.Collection: Writing
I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].Collection: Writing
Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.Collection: Writing
Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.Collection: Writing
I write because I want to have more than one life.Collection: Writing
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.Collection: Writing
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.Collection: Writing