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When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.Collection: Writing
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"Collection: Writing
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.Collection: Writing
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.Collection: Writing
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.Collection: Writing
I write a line and then I revise the line and then I write two lines and then I revise lines one and two and then I write one, two and three and I revise one and two and then I write seven and eight and then I see that should be line four and I continually work it over as I go.Collection: Writing
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."Collection: Writing
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.Collection: Writing
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.Collection: Writing
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.Collection: Writing
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.Collection: Writing
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.Collection: Writing
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.Collection: Writing
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.Collection: Writing
I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.Collection: Writing
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.Collection: Writing
I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.Collection: Writing
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicityCollection: Writing
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.Collection: Writing
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.Collection: Writing
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.Collection: Writing
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.Collection: Writing
I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.Collection: Writing
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.Collection: Writing
I won't read novels while writing novels.Collection: Writing
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.Collection: Writing
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.Collection: Writing
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.Collection: Writing
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.Collection: Writing
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.Collection: Writing
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.Collection: Writing
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.Collection: Writing
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.Collection: Writing
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.Collection: Writing
It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.Collection: Writing
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.Collection: Writing
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.Collection: Writing
That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.Collection: Writing
I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.Collection: Writing
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.Collection: Writing
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.Collection: Writing
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.Collection: Writing
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.Collection: Writing
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.Collection: Writing
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.Collection: Writing
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.Collection: Writing
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.Collection: Writing
One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.Collection: Writing
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.Collection: Writing