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No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.Collection: Writing
Write as if you are dying.Collection: Writing
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.Collection: Writing
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.Collection: Writing
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.Collection: Writing
I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.Collection: Writing
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing a novel if it didn't allude to the system into which these people are orchestrated - or an Eastern European writer, or a Russian writer, or a Chinese writer. Only American writers are able to imagine that the government and the corporations - all of it - seem to have no effect whatsoever.Collection: Writing
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.Collection: Writing
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.Collection: Writing
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.Collection: Writing
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walkCollection: Writing
I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.Collection: Writing
There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.Collection: Writing
Discovery still happens in the writing. You start in nonfiction with a whole lot more going for you, because all the discovery isn't waiting to be made. You've made some of it in the research. As you get deeper into a piece and do more research, the notes are in the direction of the piece - you're actually writing it.Collection: Writing
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.Collection: Writing
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.Collection: Writing
Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.Collection: Writing
I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediatelyCollection: Writing
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.Collection: Writing
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.Collection: Writing
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.Collection: Writing
If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.Collection: Writing
There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.Collection: Writing
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.Collection: Writing
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.Collection: Writing
When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult - there are parts that look more difficult - but in fact, they are all difficult, and you get kind of used to doing that. It is sort of the nature of the thing.Collection: Writing
I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.Collection: Writing
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.Collection: Writing
The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the West took advantage of them, that we were mean to them. That writes out of history everything Strobe Talbott and Bill Clinton tried to do with Boris Yeltsin. Strobe Talbott leaned forward doing everything he could to help the Russians, and frankly, I have little patience for the notion that we gave them nothing but bad advice.Collection: Writing
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.Collection: Writing
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.Collection: Writing
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.Collection: Writing
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.Collection: Writing
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.Collection: Writing
Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.Collection: Writing
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.Collection: Writing
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.Collection: Writing
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.Collection: Writing
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.Collection: Writing
Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.Collection: Writing
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.Collection: Writing
I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.Collection: Writing
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.Collection: Writing
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.Collection: Writing
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.Collection: Writing
I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.Collection: Writing
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.Collection: Writing