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I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I do keep a journal, but it's neither very revealing nor fruitful for work. Stuff just bubbles up from the swamp later.Collection: Writing
I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone who's not a surfer. The sensation is the thing. And it's tough to describe without resorting to clichés or mystical nonsense.Collection: Writing
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.Collection: Writing
I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.Collection: Writing
Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um... W-what is takoyaki power? Ritsu: Well, that is--! When Shigure-niisan eats takoyaki, he transforms into a great warrior... Shigure: No I don't.Collection: Writing
Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.Collection: Writing
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?Collection: Writing
Our words must seem to be inevitable.Collection: Writing
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.Collection: Writing
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.Collection: Writing
I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.Collection: Writing
I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.Collection: Writing
Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.Collection: Writing
You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.Collection: Writing
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.Collection: Writing
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.Collection: Writing
My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.Collection: Writing
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'Collection: Writing
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.Collection: Writing
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.Collection: Writing
My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.Collection: Writing
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.Collection: Writing
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.Collection: Writing
I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry.Collection: Writing
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.Collection: Writing
I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.Collection: Writing
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!Collection: Writing
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.Collection: Writing
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.Collection: Writing
I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.Collection: Writing
Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it - I just had to write it... And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way.Collection: Writing
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploringCollection: Writing
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.Collection: Writing
It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the NGOs to re-write laws and the constitution in places like Ukraine. It is none of our business.Collection: Writing
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.Collection: Writing
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.Collection: Writing
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.Collection: Writing
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.Collection: Writing
When you catch an adjective, kill it.Collection: Writing
Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.Collection: Writing
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.Collection: Writing
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.Collection: Writing
There are only two things to write about: life and death.Collection: Writing
I write to find out what I'm talking about.Collection: Writing
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.Collection: Writing
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.Collection: Writing
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.Collection: Writing
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.Collection: Writing
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.Collection: Writing