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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.Collection: Writing
I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.Collection: Writing
When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.Collection: Writing
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.Collection: Writing
I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.Collection: Writing
Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.Collection: Writing
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.Collection: Writing
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.Collection: Writing
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.Collection: Writing
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.Collection: Writing
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.Collection: Writing
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.Collection: Writing
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.Collection: Writing
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.Collection: Writing
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.Collection: Writing
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?Collection: Writing
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.Collection: Writing
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.Collection: Writing
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.Collection: Writing
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.Collection: Writing
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.Collection: Writing
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.Collection: Writing
Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.Collection: Writing
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.Collection: Writing
When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."Collection: Writing
I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.Collection: Writing
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.Collection: Writing
First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.Collection: Writing
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.Collection: Writing
It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.Collection: Writing
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.Collection: Writing
It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.Collection: Writing
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.Collection: Writing
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.Collection: Writing
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.Collection: Writing
Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.Collection: Writing
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.Collection: Writing
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.Collection: Writing
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.Collection: Writing
I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.Collection: Writing
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it outCollection: Writing
I write as a witness to what I have seen.Collection: Writing
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.Collection: Writing
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.Collection: Writing
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.Collection: Writing
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.Collection: Writing
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.Collection: Writing
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.Collection: Writing
I did an Off-Broadway show that was a comedy written by Ann Meara. We were like a family, and we did that show for a year. On Oz, I did feel like the cast members were friends and there was a lot of bonding. That said, there was a lot of testosterone. Once again, it was full of really intense theater actors with this writing that was really intricate and subtle.Collection: Writing