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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.Collection: Writing
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.Collection: Writing
I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.Collection: Writing
I never started from ideas but always from character.Collection: Writing
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?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.Collection: Writing
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.Collection: Writing
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.Collection: Writing
It seemed to me to be a parable of the exchange of goods, rather Marxist in some ways, in the new world of global forces. What the forgers do is write the brand name to try and change it, and it works! Loads of people buy fake Prada handbags, or Chanel sunglasses; they've been changed. They have been truly, really changed.Collection: Writing
I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as I used to. Instead of writing in free flight, I had to check on the stories all the time. So I have decided I better to do it while I am fresh!Collection: Writing
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.Collection: Writing
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.Collection: Writing
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.Collection: Writing
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.Collection: Writing
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.Collection: Writing
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.Collection: Writing
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.Collection: Writing
I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out, I'd love to produce or direct or write. I just want to stay in this business, definitely. That would be my number one thing. I always want to be an actress.Collection: Writing
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super powerCollection: Writing
They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing."Collection: Writing
Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.Collection: Writing
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.Collection: Writing
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.Collection: Writing
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.Collection: Writing
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.Collection: Writing
If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.Collection: Writing
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.Collection: Writing
Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.Collection: Writing
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.Collection: Writing
I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.Collection: Writing
I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.Collection: Writing
Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.Collection: Writing
Every writer has to write his speech.Collection: Writing
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.Collection: Writing
If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.Collection: Writing
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.Collection: Writing
I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!Collection: Writing
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.Collection: Writing
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.Collection: Writing
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.Collection: Writing
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.Collection: Writing
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.Collection: Writing
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)Collection: Writing
I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.Collection: Writing
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.Collection: Writing
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.Collection: Writing
Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.Collection: Writing
I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.Collection: Writing
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.Collection: Writing