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The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.Collection: Writing
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.Collection: Writing
When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.Collection: Writing
In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.Collection: Writing
I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.Collection: Writing
The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.Collection: Writing
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.Collection: Writing
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.Collection: Writing
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.Collection: Writing
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.Collection: Writing
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.Collection: Writing
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!Collection: Writing
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.Collection: Writing
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.Collection: Writing
I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.Collection: Writing
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.Collection: Writing
Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.Collection: Writing
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.Collection: Writing
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.Collection: Writing
Beware of advice-even this.Collection: Writing
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.Collection: Writing
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.Collection: Writing
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.Collection: Writing
It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.Collection: Writing
I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.Collection: Writing
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.Collection: Writing
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.Collection: Writing
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.Collection: Writing
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.Collection: Writing
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.Collection: Writing
If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.Collection: Writing
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.Collection: Writing
Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?Collection: Writing
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.Collection: Writing
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.Collection: Writing
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.Collection: Writing
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.Collection: Writing
Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.Collection: Writing
No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.Collection: Writing
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.Collection: Writing
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.Collection: Writing
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.Collection: Writing
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.Collection: Writing
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.Collection: Writing
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.Collection: Writing
I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.Collection: Writing
The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.Collection: Writing
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.Collection: Writing
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.Collection: Writing