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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.Collection: Writing
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.Collection: Writing
The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.Collection: Writing
I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.Collection: Writing
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.Collection: Writing
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.Collection: Writing
I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.Collection: Writing
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.Collection: Writing
Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.Collection: Writing
Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day.Collection: Writing
I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.Collection: Writing
I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.Collection: Writing
I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.Collection: Writing
Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.Collection: Writing
I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.Collection: Writing
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.Collection: Writing
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.Collection: Writing
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.Collection: Writing
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.Collection: Writing
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.Collection: Writing
As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can tell me what to do. I can write what I want. I might not sell it, but at least I'm in control.Collection: Writing
When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.Collection: Writing
Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.Collection: Writing
I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.Collection: Writing
The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.Collection: Writing
I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that the egg of my story is ready to hatch, then I can write it in three months. Then I know the landscape and the people well and from the inside, but I don't necessarily know where the story is going to take us.Collection: Writing
What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.Collection: Writing
But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'Collection: Writing
I never actually do rehearsals. That's one of the reasons that I write those bios and if I can meet with the actors I'll meet them or talk to them on the phone. What I want is for them to come on set knowing their lines and knowing who the character is.Collection: Writing
Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.Collection: Writing
There are very few innocent sentences in writing.Collection: Writing
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.Collection: Writing
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of ReasonCollection: Writing
Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.Collection: Writing
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What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).Collection: Writing
I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs.Collection: Writing
Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more.Collection: Writing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.Collection: Writing
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.Collection: Writing
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.Collection: Writing
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).Collection: Writing
Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.Collection: Writing
The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do.Collection: Writing
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.Collection: Writing
I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.Collection: Writing
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!Collection: Writing
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.Collection: Writing
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.Collection: Writing