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While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.Collection: Writing
For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.Collection: Writing
My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I was going to say. There was no other choice.Collection: Writing
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.Collection: Writing
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.Collection: Writing
Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.Collection: Writing
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.Collection: Writing
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.Collection: Writing
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.Collection: Writing
I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it.Collection: Writing
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.Collection: Writing
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.Collection: Writing
What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what I write is liked by the public, I have immediate feedback. There are so many things I want to say - about events in the news, politics, the gamesmanship and manipulations I read about, thoughts that occur to me about the power game, advice, on and on.Collection: Writing
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.Collection: Writing
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.Collection: Writing
If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.Collection: Writing
I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.Collection: Writing
Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a long time to wait for a sequel, but it's a short, short time to WRITE a sequel.Collection: Writing
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.Collection: Writing
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.Collection: Writing
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.Collection: Writing
Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally Ill write one myself if I can summon up the energy.Collection: Writing
All good writing leaves something unexpressed.Collection: Writing
I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.Collection: Writing
I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.Collection: Writing
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.Collection: Writing
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.Collection: Writing
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.Collection: Writing
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.Collection: Writing
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.Collection: Writing
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.Collection: Writing
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.Collection: Writing
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.Collection: Writing
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.Collection: Writing
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.Collection: Writing
For me, I'm constantly writing stuff that is what I'm dealing with on a personal, psychological level. And I think that I bring that to whatever I'm doing, whether it's being an actor or a writer or whatever it is I'm doing. I think you can't help but do that.Collection: Writing
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.Collection: Writing
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.Collection: Writing
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.Collection: Writing
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.Collection: Writing
People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that didn't rely on offensive, edgy material because I think it was an exercise in trying to write without that. Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.Collection: Writing
When things [writing] are over, I always think, 'well, I'm never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I'm going to go be a farmer'. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won't happen.Collection: Writing
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.Collection: Writing
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.Collection: Writing
I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.Collection: Writing
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.Collection: Writing
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.Collection: Writing
When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.Collection: Writing
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.Collection: Writing