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Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.Collection: Writing
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.Collection: Writing
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.Collection: Writing
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.Collection: Writing
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.Collection: Writing
Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.Collection: Writing
Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.Collection: Writing
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.Collection: Writing
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.Collection: Writing
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.Collection: Writing
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.Collection: Writing
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.Collection: Writing
Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.Collection: Writing
People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.Collection: Writing
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.Collection: Writing
For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.Collection: Writing
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.Collection: Writing
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.Collection: Writing
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.Collection: Writing
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.Collection: Writing
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.Collection: Writing
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.Collection: Writing
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.Collection: Writing
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.Collection: Writing
Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.Collection: Writing
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.Collection: Writing
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.Collection: Writing
What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.Collection: Writing
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.Collection: Writing
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.Collection: Writing
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.Collection: Writing
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.Collection: Writing
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?Collection: Writing
My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.Collection: Writing
That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.Collection: Writing
Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.Collection: Writing
I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.Collection: Writing
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.Collection: Writing
I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.Collection: Writing
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.Collection: Writing
For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.Collection: Writing
In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss.Collection: Writing
I always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then there's plenty of - I don't know if it's the right word but - lampooning, but it's always at my expense.Collection: Writing
I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.Collection: Writing
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.Collection: Writing
He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.Collection: Writing
I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.Collection: Writing
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.Collection: Writing
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.Collection: Writing