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When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.Collection: Writing
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.Collection: Writing
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.Collection: Writing
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?Collection: Writing
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.Collection: Writing
I write [music] as a sow piddles.Collection: Writing
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.Collection: Writing
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.Collection: Writing
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!Collection: Writing
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.Collection: Writing
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.Collection: Writing
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.Collection: Writing
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.Collection: Writing
I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.Collection: Writing
I gave up on America. I read the Times just to find out what they're thinking. I read blogs. I get most of my best information from people who are there, people who write independently. And there's actually very few of them.Collection: Writing
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.Collection: Writing
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.Collection: Writing
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.Collection: Writing
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.Collection: Writing
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.Collection: Writing
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.Collection: Writing
When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.Collection: Writing
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.Collection: Writing
'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.Collection: Writing
I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.Collection: Writing
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.Collection: Writing
If you own this story you get to write the ending.Collection: Writing
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.Collection: Writing
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.Collection: Writing
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.Collection: Writing
In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.Collection: Writing
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might beCollection: Writing
I am writing these poems from inside a lion.Collection: Writing
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.Collection: Writing
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.Collection: Writing
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.Collection: Writing
We trusted the writers and showrunners [in Westworlds] so much because they're so brilliant and the writing's so incredible. It really was like playing Marco Polo, where you just kind of followed their voice and they would lead you to water.Collection: Writing
But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.Collection: Writing
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.Collection: Writing
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.Collection: Writing
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.Collection: Writing
Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.Collection: Writing
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.Collection: Writing
What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.Collection: Writing
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.Collection: Writing
To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.Collection: Writing
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.Collection: Writing
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.Collection: Writing
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.Collection: Writing