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Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.Collection: Writing
No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.Collection: Writing
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.Collection: Writing
To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.Collection: Writing
I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.Collection: Writing
If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.Collection: Writing
I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.Collection: Writing
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.Collection: Writing
You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.Collection: Writing
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!Collection: Writing
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.Collection: Writing
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.Collection: Writing
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.Collection: Writing
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.Collection: Writing
A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?Collection: Writing
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.Collection: Writing
There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.Collection: Writing
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.Collection: Writing
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.Collection: Writing
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsenseCollection: Writing
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.Collection: Writing
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.Collection: Writing
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.Collection: Writing
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].Collection: Writing
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.Collection: Writing
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.Collection: Writing
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.Collection: Writing
I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.Collection: Writing
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion.Collection: Writing
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'Collection: Writing
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.Collection: Writing
I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.Collection: Writing
Writing makes me happy.Collection: Writing
I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and I have to disabuse them of that notion. It wasn't because of my emplacement within the industry. Actually the writing came first, and the publishing came first as well.Collection: Writing
If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible, disgusting comments ever. And sometimes the comments are pornographic, and sometimes the comments are really harassing. So I think that it's kind of a difficult place for women to write sometimes.Collection: Writing
His writings have made me his friend.Collection: Writing
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.Collection: Writing
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.Collection: Writing
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.Collection: Writing
...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'Collection: Writing
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."Collection: Writing
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?Collection: Writing
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.Collection: Writing
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'Collection: Writing
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.Collection: Writing
A single word often betrays a great design.Collection: Writing
You can't write a term paper before breakfast.Collection: Writing
Actors can write and produce too. Then when I was working on Jason Bourne - having had that experience - instead of going back to my trailer and being separate from everyone else, I would sit behind the monitor and watch Paul Greengrass work and be much more included in the process. That was new for me and really enriching.Collection: Writing