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Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.Collection: Writing
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.Collection: Writing
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.Collection: Writing
When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.Collection: Writing
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.Collection: Writing
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.Collection: Writing
You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.Collection: Writing
I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.Collection: Writing
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.Collection: Writing
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.Collection: Writing
When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.Collection: Writing
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.Collection: Writing
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.Collection: Writing
When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.Collection: Writing
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.Collection: Writing
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.Collection: Writing
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.Collection: Writing
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.Collection: Writing
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.Collection: Writing
The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.Collection: Writing
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.Collection: Writing
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.Collection: Writing
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.Collection: Writing
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.Collection: Writing
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.Collection: Writing
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.Collection: Writing
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.Collection: Writing
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.Collection: Writing
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.Collection: Writing
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.Collection: Writing
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.Collection: Writing
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.Collection: Writing
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.Collection: Writing
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.Collection: Writing
I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.Collection: Writing
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyricsCollection: Writing
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.Collection: Writing
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.Collection: Writing
I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.Collection: Writing
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.Collection: Writing
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.Collection: Writing
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.Collection: Writing
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.Collection: Writing
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.Collection: Writing
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.Collection: Writing
The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.Collection: Writing
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.Collection: Writing
I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?Collection: Writing
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.Collection: Writing