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I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.Collection: Writing
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.Collection: Writing
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is its own reward.Collection: Writing
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.Collection: Writing
I write emotional algebra.Collection: Writing
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.Collection: Writing
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.Collection: Writing
Translating is writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.Collection: Writing
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.Collection: Writing
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Collection: Writing
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.Collection: Writing
If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.Collection: Writing
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.Collection: Writing
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.Collection: Writing
Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."Collection: Writing
It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup.Collection: Writing
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.Collection: Writing
My best writing has always been in journals.Collection: Writing
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.Collection: Writing
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.Collection: Writing
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.Collection: Writing
I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."Collection: Writing
I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.Collection: Writing
Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It's so different - in some ways much harder for me.Collection: Writing
Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form? Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up.Collection: Writing
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.Collection: Writing
There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only thing that I say to myself is, in the spirit of that quote from the Gnostic Gospels: Writing is a way to let all that stuff out into the sun.Collection: Writing
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.Collection: Writing
I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.Collection: Writing
Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.Collection: Writing
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.Collection: Writing
The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done.Collection: Writing
In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.Collection: Writing
Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.Collection: Writing
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.Collection: Writing
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires.Collection: Writing
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.Collection: Writing
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.Collection: Writing
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.Collection: Writing
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.Collection: Writing
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.Collection: Writing
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.Collection: Writing
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.Collection: Writing
Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.Collection: Writing
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.Collection: Writing
Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.Collection: Writing
I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time, I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little - music changes into something else when you read it.Collection: Writing