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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.Collection: Writing
When you can't create you can workCollection: Writing
Work on one thing at a time until finished.Collection: Writing
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.Collection: Writing
It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.Collection: Writing
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.Collection: Writing
I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.Collection: Writing
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.Collection: Writing
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.Collection: Writing
Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.Collection: Writing
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.Collection: Writing
To know whom to write for is to know how to write.Collection: Writing
I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.Collection: Writing
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.Collection: Writing
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.Collection: Writing
Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.Collection: Writing
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.Collection: Writing
I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.Collection: Writing
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.Collection: Writing
Don't talk about it; write.Collection: Writing
We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about what we wanted to do. We wanted to find work that was relevant socially and that didn't take audiences for granted.Collection: Writing
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.Collection: Writing
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.Collection: Writing
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.Collection: Writing
It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.Collection: Writing
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.Collection: Writing
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.Collection: Writing
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.Collection: Writing
It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.Collection: Writing
Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.Collection: Writing
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing."Collection: Writing
If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fascination with the truth. I'm not looking down my nose at it.Collection: Writing
To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.Collection: Writing
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.Collection: Writing
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?Collection: Writing
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to writeCollection: Writing
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.Collection: Writing
The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.Collection: Writing
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.Collection: Writing
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.Collection: Writing
Be ruthless about protecting writing days.Collection: Writing
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.Collection: Writing
I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.Collection: Writing
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.Collection: Writing
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.Collection: Writing
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.Collection: Writing
I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.Collection: Writing
I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.Collection: Writing