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In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.Collection: Writing
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.Collection: Writing
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?Collection: Writing
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.Collection: Writing
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.Collection: Writing
The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can't do, obscure it, and focus on what works.Collection: Writing
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.Collection: Writing
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.Collection: Writing
I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.Collection: Writing
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.Collection: Writing
And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.Collection: Writing
Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.Collection: Writing
Hillary Clinton`s plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before. In effect, she would be abolishing the law-making powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. And you see what bad judgment she has. She has seriously bad judgment.Collection: Writing
Men who write love letters don't live in this century.Collection: Writing
When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come.Collection: Writing
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.Collection: Writing
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.Collection: Writing
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.Collection: Writing
When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.Collection: Writing
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.Collection: Writing
The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an organism. A certain dynamism. At The Village Voice, there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers. The New Yorker used to be notorious for everything that went on, sexual intrigues and people had individual offices, they could close the door and take a bottle out of their bottom drawer or have sex on their desk.Collection: Writing
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.Collection: Writing
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.Collection: Writing
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.Collection: Writing
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.Collection: Writing
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head, and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside.Collection: Writing
If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.Collection: Writing
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.Collection: Writing
You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.Collection: Writing
I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.Collection: Writing
I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.Collection: Writing
If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.Collection: Writing
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.Collection: Writing
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.Collection: Writing
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.Collection: Writing
There is no story unless you've written it.Collection: Writing
When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.Collection: Writing
All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.Collection: Writing
I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.Collection: Writing
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.Collection: Writing
I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel.Collection: Writing
Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.Collection: Writing
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.Collection: Writing
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite wayCollection: Writing
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.Collection: Writing
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.Collection: Writing
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.Collection: Writing
When someone writes something hateful and threatening I respond with something like, "I want to be so much like you; I want to wear your skin." By messing with them in that way you change what they're selling. They won't share it. And it halts the conversation. Or I'll change it to "Jenny, you're like a rose bush that grew a watermelon." They come back pissed off and write, "I didn't say that!"Collection: Writing
To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.Collection: Writing