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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.Collection: Writing
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.Collection: Writing
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.Collection: Writing
I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.Collection: Writing
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.Collection: Writing
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.Collection: Writing
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph.Collection: Writing
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.Collection: Writing
I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a small extent, mainly because I say things that most French writers would probably hesitate to say for fear of offending someone or upsetting public sensibilities. I don't think that answers the question, but I'm not much good at figuring readers out or I would probably be writing bestsellers.Collection: Writing
If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.Collection: Writing
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.Collection: Writing
You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.Collection: Writing
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.Collection: Writing
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.Collection: Writing
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.Collection: Writing
I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.Collection: Writing
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.Collection: Writing
It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.Collection: Writing
I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.Collection: Writing
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.Collection: Writing
As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.Collection: Writing
Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not.Collection: Writing
If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content.Collection: Writing
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.Collection: Writing
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.Collection: Writing
It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.Collection: Writing
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.Collection: Writing
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.Collection: Writing
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.Collection: Writing
It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write aboutCollection: Writing
Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going.Collection: Writing
I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that's probably one of the reasons I don't like the idea of prolific.Collection: Writing
As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.Collection: Writing
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.Collection: Writing
I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.Collection: Writing
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.Collection: Writing
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.Collection: Writing
Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!Collection: Writing
If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.Collection: Writing
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing.Collection: Writing
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.Collection: Writing
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.Collection: Writing
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.Collection: Writing
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.Collection: Writing
You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.Collection: Writing
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.Collection: Writing
I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.Collection: Writing
I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.Collection: Writing
When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok.Collection: Writing