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I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.Collection: Writing
Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.Collection: Writing
Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.Collection: Writing
It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiomCollection: Writing
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.Collection: Writing
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.Collection: Writing
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.Collection: Writing
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to the education and rank.Collection: Writing
Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.Collection: Writing
Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.Collection: Writing
Clutter is the disease of American writing.Collection: Writing
...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.Collection: Writing
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.Collection: Writing
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.Collection: Writing
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.Collection: Writing
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.Collection: Writing
Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.Collection: Writing
I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.Collection: Writing
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.Collection: Writing
Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by whom, when ordained, what to, and by whom-give a brief sketch of all his missions and of all his official acts and the dealings of God with him. Then if he were to die and the historians wished to publish his history, they would have something to go by.Collection: Writing
I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to make a record of every official act of your life. If you baptize, confirm, ordain, or bless any person or administer to the sick, write an account of it. If every man will do this, the Church can write a correct account of it...if the power and blessings of God are made manifest in your preservation from danger...you should make a record of it. Keep an account of the dealings of God with you daily. I have written all the blessings I have received, and I would not take gold for them.Collection: Writing
I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .Collection: Writing
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.Collection: Writing
People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.Collection: Writing
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.Collection: Writing
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.Collection: Writing
There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.Collection: Writing
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.Collection: Writing
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.Collection: Writing
Write only of what is important and eternal.Collection: Writing
I think writing is a much more personal thing.Collection: Writing
I write to escape ... to escape poverty.Collection: Writing
Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'Collection: Writing
If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.Collection: Writing
Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.Collection: Writing
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows upCollection: Writing
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.Collection: Writing
Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth.Collection: Writing
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.Collection: Writing
When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.Collection: Writing
When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.Collection: Writing
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.Collection: Writing
I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.Collection: Writing
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.Collection: Writing
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.Collection: Writing
No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.Collection: Writing
A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring most of the time. So you just keep doing what you like to do, I guess, and try to enjoy it.Collection: Writing
I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.Collection: Writing
There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.Collection: Writing