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I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.Collection: Writing
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.Collection: Writing
You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.Collection: Writing
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.Collection: Writing
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.Collection: Writing
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.Collection: Writing
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.Collection: Writing
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.Collection: Writing
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.Collection: Writing
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.Collection: Writing
Writing is the painting of the voice.Collection: Writing
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.Collection: Writing
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.Collection: Writing
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.Collection: Writing
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.Collection: Writing
You develop a style from writing a lot.Collection: Writing
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.Collection: Writing
I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.Collection: Writing
I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.Collection: Writing
The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.Collection: Writing
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.Collection: Writing
When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.Collection: Writing
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.Collection: Writing
Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget [any of my ideas] because I never have to remember, I just am. I don't need to write stuff down.Collection: Writing
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.Collection: Writing
I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.Collection: Writing
I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it ends. I just think that what the fear is that you think alcoholic writer or whatever and you forget the intelligence that can be present. I mean so many people just write off someone who drinks as one thing.Collection: Writing
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.Collection: Writing
I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.Collection: Writing
I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that's being created, but there's also the magic of the fact that you're essentially creating something from nothing.Collection: Writing
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.Collection: Writing
I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.Collection: Writing
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.Collection: Writing
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.Collection: Writing
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.Collection: Writing
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.Collection: Writing
A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I will never outline. I let the characters take me." C'mon, man - I outline the story, but it's only like one page. It's a list of possible reversals in the story, like things where everything will just change because of this certain reveal or this certain action. Then I start really digging into the character because, to me, I don't care what the story is.Collection: Writing
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.Collection: Writing
I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.Collection: Writing
Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.Collection: Writing
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.Collection: Writing
There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.Collection: Writing
Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.Collection: Writing
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.Collection: Writing
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.Collection: Writing
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.Collection: Writing
Don't write about Man; write about a man.Collection: Writing