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In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.Collection: Writing
It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.Collection: Writing
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'Collection: Writing
I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.Collection: Writing
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.Collection: Writing
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craftCollection: Writing
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don't know what comes next in the story... clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come.Collection: Writing
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.Collection: Writing
Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.Collection: Writing
A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?Collection: Writing
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!Collection: Writing
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.Collection: Writing
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.Collection: Writing
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.Collection: Writing
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.Collection: Writing
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.Collection: Writing
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.Collection: Writing
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.Collection: Writing
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'Collection: Writing
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.Collection: Writing
Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.Collection: Writing
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.Collection: Writing
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.Collection: Writing
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!Collection: Writing
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.Collection: Writing
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.Collection: Writing
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.Collection: Writing
I write what I would like to read.Collection: Writing
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.Collection: Writing
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.Collection: Writing
Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.Collection: Writing
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the only thing I could do.Collection: Writing
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.Collection: Writing
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject, but I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.Collection: Writing
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!Collection: Writing
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.Collection: Writing
Writing is a form of mischief.Collection: Writing
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.Collection: Writing
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.Collection: Writing
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.Collection: Writing
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.Collection: Writing
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin HobbCollection: Writing
Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.Collection: Writing
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.Collection: Writing
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.Collection: Writing
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.Collection: Writing
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.Collection: Writing
Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.Collection: Writing