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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.Collection: Writing
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.Collection: Writing
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.Collection: Writing
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.Collection: Writing
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.Collection: Writing
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.Collection: Writing
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedomCollection: Writing
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novelCollection: Writing
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stageCollection: Writing
Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.Collection: Writing
So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.Collection: Writing
But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.Collection: Writing
You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.Collection: Writing
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.Collection: Writing
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.Collection: Writing
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.Collection: Writing
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.Collection: Writing
I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show a word of it to anyone until I was 28. I had the sense to keep it to myself. Now the temptation with blogs and such, they're just getting it out there; maybe it would have been best to keep it to themselves.Collection: Writing
Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.Collection: Writing
At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.Collection: Writing
I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.Collection: Writing
Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.Collection: Writing
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.Collection: Writing
When I was writing The Satanic Verses, if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.Collection: Writing
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.Collection: Writing
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.Collection: Writing
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.Collection: Writing
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.Collection: Writing
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.Collection: Writing
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.Collection: Writing
I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.Collection: Writing
But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.Collection: Writing
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.Collection: Writing
I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.Collection: Writing
Place is character. And all writing is regional.Collection: Writing
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.Collection: Writing
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.Collection: Writing
One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.Collection: Writing
Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.Collection: Writing
You write to be read. That is the bottom line.Collection: Writing
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.Collection: Writing
I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.Collection: Writing
Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.Collection: Writing
Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.Collection: Writing
It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.Collection: Writing
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.Collection: Writing
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.Collection: Writing
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.Collection: Writing
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.Collection: Writing