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Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.Collection: Writing
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.Collection: Writing
I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.Collection: Writing
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.Collection: Writing
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.Collection: Writing
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of the fantastic actors and director with great writing.Collection: Writing
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.Collection: Writing
The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.Collection: Writing
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.Collection: Writing
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.Collection: Writing
I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.Collection: Writing
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.Collection: Writing
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.Collection: Writing
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.Collection: Writing
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.Collection: Writing
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.Collection: Writing
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.Collection: Writing
When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.Collection: Writing
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.Collection: Writing
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.Collection: Writing
I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.Collection: Writing
I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.Collection: Writing
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.Collection: Writing
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.Collection: Writing
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)Collection: Writing
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.Collection: Writing
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.Collection: Writing
I started writing every day. I never stopped.Collection: Writing
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.Collection: Writing
The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.Collection: Writing
To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.Collection: Writing
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.Collection: Writing
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.Collection: Writing
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.Collection: Writing
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.Collection: Writing
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.Collection: Writing
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.Collection: Writing
I never write a play with an eye to film.Collection: Writing
I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.Collection: Writing
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.Collection: Writing
The way to write well is to live intensely.Collection: Writing
I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.Collection: Writing
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.Collection: Writing
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.Collection: Writing
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.Collection: Writing
I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.Collection: Writing
I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band.Collection: Writing
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.Collection: Writing
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.Collection: Writing