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I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.Collection: Writing
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.Collection: Writing
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.Collection: Writing
writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.Collection: Writing
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.Collection: Writing
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.Collection: Writing
Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.Collection: Writing
Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.Collection: Writing
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.Collection: Writing
Good writing comes from good talent.Collection: Writing
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.Collection: Writing
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.Collection: Writing
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.Collection: Writing
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.Collection: Writing
Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.Collection: Writing
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”Collection: Writing
After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.Collection: Writing
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."Collection: Writing
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.Collection: Writing
I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when I’ve not got anything better to do – and even then I often do nothing instead.Collection: Writing
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.Collection: Writing
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.Collection: Writing
I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.Collection: Writing
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.Collection: Writing
Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.Collection: Writing
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show thatCollection: Writing
If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.Collection: Writing
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections.Collection: Writing
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.Collection: Writing
I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.Collection: Writing
Never write more than two pages on any subject.Collection: Writing
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.Collection: Writing
I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I'm not too worried.Collection: Writing
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.Collection: Writing
People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.Collection: Writing
I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.Collection: Writing
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.Collection: Writing
Theres so many other things to write about than unrequited love.Collection: Writing
In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.Collection: Writing
And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em.Collection: Writing
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.Collection: Writing
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.Collection: Writing
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.Collection: Writing
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.Collection: Writing
Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meantCollection: Writing
All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.Collection: Writing
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.Collection: Writing