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My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because I know so much of the story that I want to tell and I feel so far away from the end. Actually feels a hundred years away, and every hour I'm not working is another hour away from finishing.Collection: Writing
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.Collection: Writing
All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.Collection: Writing
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.Collection: Writing
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.Collection: Writing
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes.Collection: Writing
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.Collection: Writing
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.Collection: Writing
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.Collection: Writing
I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic.Collection: Writing
People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.Collection: Writing
Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.Collection: Writing
Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we Americans have made it so easy for them.Collection: Writing
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.Collection: Writing
I always write a story in one sitting.Collection: Writing
He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.Collection: Writing
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.Collection: Writing
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.Collection: Writing
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.Collection: Writing
I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.Collection: Writing
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.Collection: Writing
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.Collection: Writing
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'Collection: Writing
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.Collection: Writing
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.Collection: Writing
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.Collection: Writing
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.Collection: Writing
As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.Collection: Writing
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.Collection: Writing
I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.Collection: Writing
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.Collection: Writing
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.Collection: Writing
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.Collection: Writing
Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. As a writer, my interest has become in writing about much more emotional, personal topics. I'm trying to reach into subjects I have never written about before.Collection: Writing
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.Collection: Writing
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.Collection: Writing
Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.Collection: Writing
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.Collection: Writing
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.Collection: Writing
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.Collection: Writing
One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.Collection: Writing
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.Collection: Writing
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.Collection: Writing
If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.Collection: Writing
Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.Collection: Writing
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.Collection: Writing
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.Collection: Writing
I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.Collection: Writing