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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.Collection: Writing
Anyone who can not write should.Collection: Writing
I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.Collection: Writing
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.Collection: Writing
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.Collection: Writing
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.Collection: Writing
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.Collection: Writing
Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.Collection: Writing
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe MorelliCollection: Writing
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.Collection: Writing
Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.Collection: Writing
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.Collection: Writing
Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.Collection: Writing
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.Collection: Writing
One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.Collection: Writing
I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the environment. It feels a little too comfortable, because at the end of the day I can rationalize that I'm doing my share. I don't know if I actually am, I don't know if I should be more of an activist than I am. But at the end of the day, everybody needs to do those things that they're most likely to continue doing, and that aren't going to burn them out.Collection: Writing
When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.Collection: Writing
'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.Collection: Writing
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.Collection: Writing
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.Collection: Writing
I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think."Collection: Writing
Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?Collection: Writing
I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.Collection: Writing
If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.Collection: Writing
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself.Collection: Writing
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writingCollection: Writing
In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to experience something and when you begin to write about it be able to apply the tools that you need for writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.Collection: Writing
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.Collection: Writing
Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.Collection: Writing
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.Collection: Writing
A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.Collection: Writing
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.Collection: Writing
The whole time I was writing, I had to fight my normal inclination to be funny, to sort of patch humor in, in order to convey all of the disruptions of the disease to the family dynamic, the loss of individuality, the impact on professional life, and the sanity of the main character. Of course, that's not to say it never sneaks in; there's some black comedy in there, like when he shows up to court wearing a bicycle helmet and won't take it off.Collection: Writing
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leapCollection: Writing
I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.Collection: Writing
When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.Collection: Writing
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.Collection: Writing
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.Collection: Writing
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.Collection: Writing
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.Collection: Writing
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.Collection: Writing
When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!Collection: Writing
One of the reasons I write is I like being surprisedCollection: Writing
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.Collection: Writing
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.Collection: Writing
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."Collection: Writing
When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.Collection: Writing
I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.Collection: Writing