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I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.Collection: Writing
I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.Collection: Writing
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.Collection: Writing
What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.Collection: Writing
A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.Collection: Writing
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.Collection: Writing
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.Collection: Writing
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.Collection: Writing
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!Collection: Writing
England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.Collection: Writing
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.Collection: Writing
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.Collection: Writing
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.Collection: Writing
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.Collection: Writing
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.Collection: Writing
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about itCollection: Writing
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - AliceCollection: Writing
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.Collection: Writing
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.Collection: Writing
Generals who can write always make me nervous.Collection: Writing
...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their ideas. If you want the wisdom of the crowd, gather it electronically, or in writing, and make sure people can't see each other's ideas until everyone has had a chance to contribute.Collection: Writing
To write is to right things. A path will emerge.Collection: Writing
And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.Collection: Writing
Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.Collection: Writing
Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.Collection: Writing
The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.Collection: Writing
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.Collection: Writing
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.Collection: Writing
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.Collection: Writing
I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.Collection: Writing
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.Collection: Writing
I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.Collection: Writing
In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.Collection: Writing
The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.Collection: Writing
I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from the scene I find the character, from the character I find the larger plot. It's like deductive reasoning - I start with the smaller stuff and work backward.Collection: Writing
That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.Collection: Writing
Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.Collection: Writing
I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.Collection: Writing
The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.Collection: Writing
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.Collection: Writing
The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.Collection: Writing
When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in the suburbs, no scandals, so nothing to write about. So what he did is concoct one of the nuttiest claims I've ever seen.Collection: Writing
[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.Collection: Writing
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?Collection: Writing
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.Collection: Writing
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.Collection: Writing
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.Collection: Writing
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writingCollection: Writing
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.Collection: Writing