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I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.Collection: Writing
I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.Collection: Writing
I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.Collection: Writing
I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.Collection: Writing
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.Collection: Writing
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.Collection: Writing
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.Collection: Writing
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.Collection: Writing
Good writing is always new.Collection: Writing
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.Collection: Writing
One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.Collection: Writing
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.Collection: Writing
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.Collection: Writing
I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.Collection: Writing
A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy. Now, fantasy is also fine, but there is a distinction, although no one's ever been able to say just where the dividing lines come.Collection: Writing
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?Collection: Writing
Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.Collection: Writing
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.Collection: Writing
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.Collection: Writing
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.Collection: Writing
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.Collection: Writing
A clear sentence is no accident.Collection: Writing
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.Collection: Writing
Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.Collection: Writing
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.Collection: Writing
A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.Collection: Writing
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.Collection: Writing
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.Collection: Writing
I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.Collection: Writing
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.Collection: Writing
The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.Collection: Writing
I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.Collection: Writing
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.Collection: Writing
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All a writer has is her own experience, and that experience comes out of human relationships.Collection: Writing
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.Collection: Writing
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.Collection: Writing
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.Collection: Writing
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.Collection: Writing
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.Collection: Writing
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".Collection: Writing
It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke.Collection: Writing
I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon.Collection: Writing
Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.Collection: Writing
Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing.Collection: Writing
Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.Collection: Writing
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.Collection: Writing
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.Collection: Writing
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.Collection: Writing
I love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my work- things I don’t know how I ever would have found out otherwise, that are perfect, just what I need for whatever I’m doing.Collection: Writing