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Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.Collection: Writing
It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.Collection: Writing
I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.Collection: Writing
Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.Collection: Writing
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.Collection: Writing
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!Collection: Writing
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.Collection: Writing
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.Collection: Writing
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows.Collection: Writing
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.Collection: Writing
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.Collection: Writing
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.Collection: Writing
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.Collection: Writing
Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.Collection: Writing
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him.Collection: Writing
Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.Collection: Writing
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.Collection: Writing
I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.Collection: Writing
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.Collection: Writing
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.Collection: Writing
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.Collection: Writing
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.Collection: Writing
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.Collection: Writing
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.Collection: Writing
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.Collection: Writing
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.Collection: Writing
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.Collection: Writing
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.Collection: Writing
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.Collection: Writing
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.Collection: Writing
The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.Collection: Writing
I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.Collection: Writing
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.Collection: Writing
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.Collection: Writing
I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.Collection: Writing
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.Collection: Writing
What did you write on here? ‘Don’t die’?” “No, I wrote, ‘Don’t be an asshole!’”I headed for the house. “On yours or mine?” “On yours.” “Well, in that case, your magic isn’t working. I’m still an asshole.Collection: Writing
I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.Collection: Writing
Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.Collection: Writing
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.Collection: Writing
I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.Collection: Writing
In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.Collection: Writing
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'Collection: Writing
I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.Collection: Writing
What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story.Collection: Writing
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.Collection: Writing
The sensible thing for everyone to do would be to write all their op-eds and think pieces now so they're ready the day after the election when [Donald] Trump is no longer in the picture. God, I can't wait for that. I hope he just goes away.Collection: Writing
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.Collection: Writing
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.Collection: Writing