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If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.Collection: Writing
I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.Collection: Writing
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.Collection: Writing
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.Collection: Writing
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.Collection: Writing
Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapersCollection: Writing
Anything that isn't writing is easyCollection: Writing
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.Collection: Writing
As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.Collection: Writing
The only reason to write is from love.Collection: Writing
The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.Collection: Writing
I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.Collection: Writing
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.Collection: Writing
Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.Collection: Writing
If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.Collection: Writing
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.Collection: Writing
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.Collection: Writing
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.Collection: Writing
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.Collection: Writing
It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.Collection: Writing
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.Collection: Writing
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.Collection: Writing
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.Collection: Writing
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.Collection: Writing
Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.Collection: Writing
Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.Collection: Writing
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.Collection: Writing
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.Collection: Writing
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.Collection: Writing
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.Collection: Writing
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.Collection: Writing
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.Collection: Writing
If you push in every time there's a big moment, then the tenth time you push in, you're not going to get the same effect. Or if you have too many close ups, then when you have a big moment and you want a close-up in order to make a point, it doesn't mean anything because you've already been doing close-ups. It's like writing in all capitals. Then after a while that doesn't mean anything. So, just because you can do something with a camera doesn't mean you should.Collection: Writing
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.Collection: Writing
If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.Collection: Writing
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.Collection: Writing
Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.Collection: Writing
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.Collection: Writing
I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.Collection: Writing
I don't really know how to do much else besides write.Collection: Writing
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.Collection: Writing
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.Collection: Writing
I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.Collection: Writing
Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.Collection: Writing
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to writeCollection: Writing
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.Collection: Writing
Writing is a form of self-flagellation.Collection: Writing
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.Collection: Writing
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.Collection: Writing