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I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.Collection: Writing
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .Collection: Writing
I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.Collection: Writing
The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.Collection: Writing
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.Collection: Writing
I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"Collection: Writing
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.Collection: Writing
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.Collection: Writing
Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.Collection: Writing
How well I would write if I were not here!Collection: Writing
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.Collection: Writing
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.Collection: Writing
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.Collection: Writing
When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.Collection: Writing
Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is.Collection: Writing
I kinda write in sequences that I live through.Collection: Writing
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.Collection: Writing
Good writing is rewriting.Collection: Writing
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.Collection: Writing
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you makeCollection: Writing
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subjectCollection: Writing
Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.Collection: Writing
Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.Collection: Writing
The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.Collection: Writing
Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.Collection: Writing
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospectsCollection: Writing
The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never knowCollection: Writing
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.Collection: Writing
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton editionCollection: Writing
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.Collection: Writing
Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try to find meaning in it. Journalists don't have a choice about reporting what the president says. I find the idea - "Let's not write about his tweets" - to be absolutely ridiculous. I mean, he's the president! Of course, we have to write about his tweets and look at what they mean. The problem is, they're hollow. But we don't have the option of ignoring what he's saying because he's president. That's damaging to language, and to journalism.Collection: Writing
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.Collection: Writing
Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.Collection: Writing
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.Collection: Writing
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.Collection: Writing
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.Collection: Writing
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.Collection: Writing
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.Collection: Writing
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.Collection: Writing
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.Collection: Writing
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.Collection: Writing
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.Collection: Writing
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.Collection: Writing
Donald Trump attacked the woman reporter writing the story, called her "disgusting," as he has called a number of women during his campaign. Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like. So we know what Donald thinks and what he says and how he acts toward women. That's who Donald is.Collection: Writing
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.Collection: Writing
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.Collection: Writing
Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.Collection: Writing
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.Collection: Writing