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Even writers need relief from words.Collection: Writing
I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.Collection: Writing
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.Collection: Writing
In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.Collection: Writing
For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set.Collection: Writing
Doubtful, but it did work... "Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit and your lips press together and ---" "Do you have a pen?" she asked him. "You're kidding, right?" He brought out Riptide. "Yes, but can you actually write with it?" "I--I don't know," he admitted. "Never tried.Collection: Writing
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.Collection: Writing
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.Collection: Writing
When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doingCollection: Writing
[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.Collection: Writing
I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.Collection: Writing
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.Collection: Writing
Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.Collection: Writing
I’m not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don’t seek a wide swath of feedback.Collection: Writing
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.Collection: Writing
I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.Collection: Writing
Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.Collection: Writing
I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.Collection: Writing
Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.Collection: Writing
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.Collection: Writing
If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.Collection: Writing
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.Collection: Writing
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.Collection: Writing
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.Collection: Writing
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.Collection: Writing
Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.Collection: Writing
Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.Collection: Writing
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.Collection: Writing
As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.Collection: Writing
You can't live and write at the same time.Collection: Writing
I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.Collection: Writing
When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.Collection: Writing
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.Collection: Writing
I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things.Collection: Writing
I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.Collection: Writing
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.Collection: Writing
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.Collection: Writing
I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.Collection: Writing
I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are.Collection: Writing
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.Collection: Writing
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.Collection: Writing
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.Collection: Writing
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.Collection: Writing
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.Collection: Writing
My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.Collection: Writing
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.Collection: Writing
I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.Collection: Writing
I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, "You know you can't write about this."Collection: Writing