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At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to death of the Frankenstein films ... and in all these years later, I wanted it to come out with a happy ending, and I think it was my fear of the Frankenstein movies when I was 8 and 9 and 10 years old that made me want to write that story [Young Frankenstein].Collection: Writing
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.Collection: Writing
Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"Collection: Writing
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.Collection: Writing
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.Collection: Writing
What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.Collection: Writing
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.Collection: Writing
Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.Collection: Writing
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.Collection: Writing
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set.Collection: Writing
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."Collection: Writing
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.Collection: Writing
You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.Collection: Writing
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.Collection: Writing
Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.Collection: Writing
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.Collection: Writing
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.Collection: Writing
It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.Collection: Writing
And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.Collection: Writing
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.Collection: Writing
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel it's a bit pompous to state it that way, but it does distinguish me from other writers. When it was first on the web, people began to use it in an ironical and satirical way. Now, however, people tend to use it straight.Collection: Writing
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.Collection: Writing
I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.Collection: Writing
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.Collection: Writing
Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.Collection: Writing
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.Collection: Writing
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in inkCollection: Writing
There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.Collection: Writing
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.Collection: Writing
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.Collection: Writing
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.Collection: Writing
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.Collection: Writing
A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.Collection: Writing
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.Collection: Writing
I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.Collection: Writing
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.Collection: Writing
The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.Collection: Writing
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.Collection: Writing
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.Collection: Writing
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.Collection: Writing
A woman who writes feels too much.Collection: Writing
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.Collection: Writing
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.Collection: Writing
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.Collection: Writing
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never failsCollection: Writing
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.Collection: Writing
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.Collection: Writing
There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.Collection: Writing
Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.Collection: Writing