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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.Collection: Writing
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.Collection: Writing
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.Collection: Writing
A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.Collection: Writing
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.Collection: Writing
If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.Collection: Writing
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.Collection: Writing
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.Collection: Writing
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.Collection: Writing
Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.Collection: Writing
You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.Collection: Writing
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.Collection: Writing
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.Collection: Writing
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.Collection: Writing
Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop.Collection: Writing
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.Collection: Writing
While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.Collection: Writing
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trustedCollection: Writing
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.Collection: Writing
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.Collection: Writing
I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.Collection: Writing
I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.Collection: Writing
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.Collection: Writing
Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.Collection: Writing
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.Collection: Writing
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.Collection: Writing
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.Collection: Writing
In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.Collection: Writing
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.Collection: Writing
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.Collection: Writing
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.Collection: Writing
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.Collection: Writing
The best writing is rewriting.Collection: Writing
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.Collection: Writing
The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.Collection: Writing
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.Collection: Writing
English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with itCollection: Writing
I do not write for an audienceCollection: Writing
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.Collection: Writing
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.Collection: Writing
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.Collection: Writing
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.Collection: Writing
I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of thing. There are opportunities for students to engage in those types of protests - taking to the streets - but there is also writing poetry, writing music, beginning to express themselves, holding forums, educating each other, the whole range.Collection: Writing
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.Collection: Writing
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.Collection: Writing
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.Collection: Writing
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.Collection: Writing
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.Collection: Writing
I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.Collection: Writing