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A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality.Collection: Writing
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.Collection: Writing
Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got OneCollection: Writing
I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.Collection: Writing
He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well.Collection: Writing
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.Collection: Writing
The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort of a combination of his voice and my voice.Collection: Writing
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.Collection: Writing
Other-Love is writing's first name.Collection: Writing
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.Collection: Writing
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake BaileyCollection: Writing
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.Collection: Writing
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.Collection: Writing
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.Collection: Writing
I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.Collection: Writing
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.Collection: Writing
And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and hopefully they don't come at the very end because then it's getting late in the day.Collection: Writing
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.Collection: Writing
That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has to be some kind of marker, something setting out a space, creating a space for what's going to come.Collection: Writing
I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.Collection: Writing
One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I have to have a formal idea. Something has to be being worked out in poetry.Collection: Writing
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.Collection: Writing
But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I really began to write poetry with great energy and enthusiasm.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.Collection: Writing
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.Collection: Writing
Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do a lot in a day.Collection: Writing
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.Collection: Writing
What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.Collection: Writing
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.Collection: Writing
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.Collection: Writing
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the HatterCollection: Writing
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.Collection: Writing
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.Collection: Writing
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.Collection: Writing
There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann.Collection: Writing
Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper."Collection: Writing
Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.Collection: Writing
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.Collection: Writing
If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?Collection: Writing
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.Collection: Writing
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.Collection: Writing
I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.Collection: Writing
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.Collection: Writing
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.Collection: Writing
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.Collection: Writing
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.Collection: Writing
To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'Collection: Writing
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.Collection: Writing