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If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.Collection: Writing
In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.Collection: Writing
Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't been able to answer. The reason I write is that there are questions to which I want to find answers - or I want to find questions beyond those questions.Collection: Writing
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.Collection: Writing
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.Collection: Writing
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.Collection: Writing
Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.Collection: Writing
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.Collection: Writing
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.Collection: Writing
The tears had turned to ink.Collection: Writing
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.Collection: Writing
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.Collection: Writing
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.Collection: Writing
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on.Collection: Writing
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.Collection: Writing
Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?Collection: Writing
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.Collection: Writing
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.Collection: Writing
I don't think I could form my writing into scripts or novels. It's so sporadic. My writing's pretty poor. I often think, "Who's this for?" Sometimes it's impressions of the day or my life, or it's fiction. Sometimes it's about things I want to remember, or I try to write in really awful French.Collection: Writing
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.Collection: Writing
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.Collection: Writing
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.Collection: Writing
When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.Collection: Writing
Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.Collection: Writing
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.Collection: Writing
John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.Collection: Writing
Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.Collection: Writing
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.Collection: Writing
Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is a business writer who edits her company's weekly public relations magazine. And in Sister Swing, Suyin writes human interest stories for a free, local community paper, The Asian Time.Collection: Writing
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.Collection: Writing
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.Collection: Writing
A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.Collection: Writing
And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter.Collection: Writing
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.Collection: Writing
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.Collection: Writing
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.Collection: Writing
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.Collection: Writing
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.Collection: Writing
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.Collection: Writing
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.Collection: Writing
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.Collection: Writing
When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?"Collection: Writing
Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.Collection: Writing
But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.Collection: Writing
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.Collection: Writing
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himselfCollection: Writing
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.Collection: Writing
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.Collection: Writing
There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public.Collection: Writing