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With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.Collection: Writing
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.Collection: Writing
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.Collection: Writing
I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.Collection: Writing
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.Collection: Writing
I see but one rule: to be clear.Collection: Writing
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career.Collection: Writing
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.Collection: Writing
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.Collection: Writing
Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.Collection: Writing
I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.Collection: Writing
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.Collection: Writing
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.Collection: Writing
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.Collection: Writing
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.Collection: Writing
I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.Collection: Writing
The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.Collection: Writing
For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.Collection: Writing
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.Collection: Writing
I don't think that any scene [in Pineapple Express] is word for word how you'd find it in the script. Some of it was much more loose than others. The last scene with me, Danny [McBride] and James [Franko] in the diner - there was never even a script for that scene. Usually we write something, but for that scene we literally wrote nothing.Collection: Writing
You have to write badly in order to write well.Collection: Writing
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.Collection: Writing
People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.Collection: Writing
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.Collection: Writing
Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.Collection: Writing
Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.Collection: Writing
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.Collection: Writing
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.Collection: Writing
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.Collection: Writing
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.Collection: Writing
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.Collection: Writing
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.Collection: Writing
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.Collection: Writing
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.Collection: Writing
So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.Collection: Writing
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.Collection: Writing
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.Collection: Writing
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thinCollection: Writing
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life. A true poet doesn't use poetic devices to con the heart of a woman but uses the beauty of all that is poetic to serve, cherish, and express love to the heart of a woman. Just as a true warrior is not a conqueror of femininity but a protector of femininity, a true poet is not just a wooer of a woman's heart but one who knows how to nurture and plant love in a woman's heart. Simply put, a true poet is a man who knows how to be intimate with a lover - first and foremost with Christ.Collection: Writing
But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser.Collection: Writing
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.Collection: Writing
I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.Collection: Writing
I write to give myself strength.Collection: Writing
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.Collection: Writing
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.Collection: Writing
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.Collection: Writing
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.Collection: Writing
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.Collection: Writing
I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.Collection: Writing