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If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.Collection: Writing
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.Collection: Writing
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.Collection: Writing
To choose to write is to reject silence.Collection: Writing
The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.Collection: Writing
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.Collection: Writing
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.Collection: Writing
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.Collection: Writing
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.Collection: Writing
I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.Collection: Writing
I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.Collection: Writing
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.Collection: Writing
How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.Collection: Writing
When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm actually like, "I kind of don't want to direct it." I don't know why, I still love it enough for it to be made and to support it, but I don't want to direct it. I just give it to other directors and they do a good job!Collection: Writing
Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.Collection: Writing
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.Collection: Writing
You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.Collection: Writing
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.Collection: Writing
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.Collection: Writing
Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.Collection: Writing
Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.Collection: Writing
Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.Collection: Writing
Writing is my vacation from living.Collection: Writing
We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the technology and writing of the technology and the social justice of the technology in what social justice does is reduce impacts on the Earth because the most impact is from the poorest and richest people.Collection: Writing
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall’.Collection: Writing
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.Collection: Writing
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.Collection: Writing
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!Collection: Writing
We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.Collection: Writing
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.Collection: Writing
Pay attention to the sound of words.Collection: Writing
Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.Collection: Writing
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.Collection: Writing
I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issueCollection: Writing
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism isCollection: Writing
Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.Collection: Writing
The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row.Collection: Writing
I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.Collection: Writing
Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.Collection: Writing
Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.Collection: Writing
I try to make the writing as regular and regimented as possible. I usually get up at around 5 a.m. and read what I wrote the day before. Some of the time, after I read, I think the writing's very good and some of the time I feel embarrassed by what I've written. You have to learn not to pay too much attention to these feelings.Collection: Writing
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.Collection: Writing
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?Collection: Writing
I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.Collection: Writing
You can't write if you can't relate.Collection: Writing
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.Collection: Writing
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.Collection: Writing
From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrailsCollection: Writing