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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.Collection: Writing
I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.Collection: Writing
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.Collection: Writing
I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.Collection: Writing
But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.Collection: Writing
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.Collection: Writing
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.Collection: Writing
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.Collection: Writing
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.Collection: Writing
When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being. They don't really - they seldom nail it. It takes a woman to write a really good female character. I like that.Collection: Writing
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.Collection: Writing
With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.Collection: Writing
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.Collection: Writing
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.Collection: Writing
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.Collection: Writing
I`ve said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the rules of the global economy, we will succeed in the 21st century. But we have to write those rules, we have to engage, and I think the president [Donald Trump] said Trans-Pacific Partnership is not the way to do it.Collection: Writing
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.Collection: Writing
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.Collection: Writing
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.Collection: Writing
Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.Collection: Writing
As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in a lot of small ways that that wasn't the case. It's sort of a mixed blessing. My mind is like a puppy. It goes all over. I guess writing fiction was a way of harnessing that. I could hook a puppy up to a treadmill and get something out of it.Collection: Writing
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.Collection: Writing
It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.Collection: Writing
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about itCollection: Writing
Someone ought to write a novel about me.Collection: Writing
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.Collection: Writing
If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you.Collection: Writing
We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.Collection: Writing
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.Collection: Writing
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.Collection: Writing
Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.Collection: Writing
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing GodCollection: Writing
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.Collection: Writing
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essaysCollection: Writing
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.Collection: Writing
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.Collection: Writing
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.Collection: Writing
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.Collection: Writing
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.Collection: Writing
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?Collection: Writing
I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.Collection: Writing
I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake...Collection: Writing
You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.Collection: Writing
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.Collection: Writing
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.Collection: Writing
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.Collection: Writing
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.Collection: Writing
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.Collection: Writing