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It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.Collection: Writing
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.Collection: Writing
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.Collection: Writing
I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.Collection: Writing
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.Collection: Writing
I would have every man write what he knows and no more.Collection: Writing
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.Collection: Writing
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.Collection: Writing
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.Collection: Writing
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.Collection: Writing
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.Collection: Writing
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.Collection: Writing
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.Collection: Writing
When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.Collection: Writing
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.Collection: Writing
I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous.Collection: Writing
Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The steady supply of guns in the U.S. makes an already untenable situation even more dangerous, and all of us must raise our voices, write to Congress, hit the streets in protest, attend budget meetings of local municipalities - all to state our opposition to such criminal procedures and practices for our youth.Collection: Writing
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.Collection: Writing
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on.Collection: Writing
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.Collection: Writing
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.Collection: Writing
You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.Collection: Writing
I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?Collection: Writing
He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. “What’s his name?” the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. “Uh…John Tomkins,” I said. “That’s different,” the receptionist said, writing it down. “He was a pirate,” I said. “I mean Tomkins. I don’t know about the cat. (...)Collection: Writing
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage.Collection: Writing
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.Collection: Writing
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!Collection: Writing
I write to be the characters that I am not.Collection: Writing
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.Collection: Writing
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.Collection: Writing
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.Collection: Writing
I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.Collection: Writing
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.Collection: Writing
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.Collection: Writing
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.Collection: Writing
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!Collection: Writing
Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but they're good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers."Collection: Writing
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.Collection: Writing
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.Collection: Writing
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.Collection: Writing
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.Collection: Writing
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.Collection: Writing
One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.Collection: Writing
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.Collection: Writing
I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.Collection: Writing
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.Collection: Writing
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.Collection: Writing
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.Collection: Writing