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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.Collection: Writing
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimatelyCollection: Writing
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.Collection: Writing
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance. I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.Collection: Writing
To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.Collection: Writing
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.Collection: Writing
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.Collection: Writing
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.Collection: Writing
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.Collection: Writing
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.Collection: Writing
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.Collection: Writing
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.Collection: Writing
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.Collection: Writing
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.Collection: Writing
The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.Collection: Writing
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.Collection: Writing
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.Collection: Writing
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.Collection: Writing
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.Collection: Writing
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.Collection: Writing
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.Collection: Writing
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'Collection: Writing
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.Collection: Writing
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.Collection: Writing
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.Collection: Writing
It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.Collection: Writing
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!Collection: Writing
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.Collection: Writing
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.Collection: Writing
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.Collection: Writing
Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.Collection: Writing
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.Collection: Writing
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.Collection: Writing
Save the gerund and screw the whale.Collection: Writing
Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.Collection: Writing
Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.Collection: Writing
It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.Collection: Writing
I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of writing, the greatest truth is that there's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. That's the way Shakespeare put it. But you get basically the same idea from Buddha, from the Bhagavad Gita in India, and from the Stoics in ancient Greece and Rome.Collection: Writing
I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.Collection: Writing
I wish my prose to be transparent—I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.Collection: Writing
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.Collection: Writing
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can becomeCollection: Writing
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.Collection: Writing
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.Collection: Writing
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.Collection: Writing
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.Collection: Writing
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.Collection: Writing
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.Collection: Writing