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What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself.Collection: Writing
The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.Collection: Writing
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?Collection: Writing
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.Collection: Writing
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.Collection: Writing
If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall mutiny or rise up against their commanders and officers; if any should preach or write that there should be no commanders or officers because all are equal in Christ, therefore no master or officers, no laws nor orders, nor corrections nor punishments - I say I never denied that in such cases, the commander may judge, resist, compel, and punish such transgressors according to their deserts and merits.Collection: Writing
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.Collection: Writing
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the sameCollection: Writing
Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.Collection: Writing
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.Collection: Writing
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.Collection: Writing
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.Collection: Writing
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.Collection: Writing
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!Collection: Writing
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.Collection: Writing
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.Collection: Writing
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?Collection: Writing
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.Collection: Writing
There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing.Collection: Writing
If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.Collection: Writing
In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.Collection: Writing
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.Collection: Writing
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.Collection: Writing
I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.Collection: Writing
I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.Collection: Writing
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.Collection: Writing
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.Collection: Writing
I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.Collection: Writing
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.Collection: Writing
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.Collection: Writing
Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things.Collection: Writing
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.Collection: Writing
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.Collection: Writing
I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.Collection: Writing
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.Collection: Writing
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.Collection: Writing
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.Collection: Writing
So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.Collection: Writing
I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.Collection: Writing
I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.Collection: Writing
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.Collection: Writing
My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.Collection: Writing
Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.Collection: Writing
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.Collection: Writing
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.Collection: Writing
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.Collection: Writing
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.Collection: Writing
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.Collection: Writing