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I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.Collection: Writing
Don't write about that which you don't know.Collection: Writing
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.Collection: Writing
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.Collection: Writing
I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.Collection: Writing
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.Collection: Writing
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.Collection: Writing
... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.Collection: Writing
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.Collection: Writing
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.Collection: Writing
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.Collection: Writing
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.Collection: Writing
It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.Collection: Writing
Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'Collection: Writing
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.Collection: Writing
Style is to forget all styles.Collection: Writing
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.Collection: Writing
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.Collection: Writing
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.Collection: Writing
Writing is always harder than talking.Collection: Writing
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.Collection: Writing
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.Collection: Writing
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.Collection: Writing
All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.Collection: Writing
I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.Collection: Writing
Whenever I write about my family, I start by getting my parent`s approval. I like to think I write about them with obvious affection. When it comes to the people I'm related to, I consider myself to be very lucky.Collection: Writing
I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.Collection: Writing
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.Collection: Writing
When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You're going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do.Collection: Writing
When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, "if I don't write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!"Collection: Writing
I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot of money so it really galls me to write quickly for free.Collection: Writing
I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.Collection: Writing
I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remainCollection: Writing
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.Collection: Writing
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.Collection: Writing
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.Collection: Writing
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.Collection: Writing
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.Collection: Writing
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.Collection: Writing
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.Collection: Writing
A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.Collection: Writing
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron LyttonCollection: Writing
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.Collection: Writing
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.Collection: Writing
I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.Collection: Writing
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.Collection: Writing
If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.Collection: Writing