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To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.Collection: Writing
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.Collection: Writing
The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"Collection: Writing
For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.Collection: Writing
Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.Collection: Writing
Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.Collection: Writing
There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.Collection: Writing
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.Collection: Writing
After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.Collection: Writing
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.Collection: Writing
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.Collection: Writing
No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.Collection: Writing
More people write poetry than read it.Collection: Writing
Those who write clearly have readers.Collection: Writing
I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.Collection: Writing
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.Collection: Writing
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.Collection: Writing
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.Collection: Writing
Writing is an adventure.Collection: Writing
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.Collection: Writing
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.Collection: Writing
[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.Collection: Writing
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.Collection: Writing
When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.Collection: Writing
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.Collection: Writing
There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.Collection: Writing
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.Collection: Writing
If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.Collection: Writing
If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.Collection: Writing
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.Collection: Writing
If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.Collection: Writing
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.Collection: Writing
In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that AVATAR’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.Collection: Writing
I don't look at scripts. I just write them.Collection: Writing
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.Collection: Writing
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.Collection: Writing
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.Collection: Writing
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.Collection: Writing
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.Collection: Writing
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.Collection: Writing
I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there.Collection: Writing
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.Collection: Writing
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.Collection: Writing
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.Collection: Writing
We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.Collection: Writing
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.Collection: Writing
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.Collection: Writing
The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch.Collection: Writing
What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.Collection: Writing