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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.Collection: Writing
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.Collection: Writing
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.Collection: Writing
I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!Collection: Writing
With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide. You take us where we need to go any way you see fit. I tried to write something specifically for you. If you agree with my choices, fine. If not, you do what you have to do.'Collection: Writing
I didn't write superheroes for the first 10 years of my comic career. I was just doing fan fiction. I wasn't thinking about superheroes at all, even though I loved them. I was raised by Watchmen and Dark Knight, so I was raised in with it's all been done, they don't worry about that.Collection: Writing
I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.Collection: Writing
I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.Collection: Writing
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.Collection: Writing
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.Collection: Writing
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.Collection: Writing
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.Collection: Writing
Throughout history, the only way of restoring stability is to write down the debts. That is treated now as if it's something that can't be done. But it's the only thing that's going to revive the economy.Collection: Writing
I don't think I did write any poems to fill narrative gaps. Not consciously, anyway. As much as possible, I try to discover my poems' subject matter through the act of writing, instead of deciding ahead of time what my poems will be about.Collection: Writing
Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.Collection: Writing
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.Collection: Writing
Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.Collection: Writing
If I have a clear spot in my schedule, I like to tackle the heavy scenes that require the heightened emotion and focus of a long writing session. Otherwise, I have daily obligations that can't be ignored.Collection: Writing
Writing about your community is difficult for any writer.Collection: Writing
I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches.Collection: Writing
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.Collection: Writing
When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think I can explain how. It's like deciding whether to wear a skirt or a pair of pants.Collection: Writing
Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.Collection: Writing
I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).Collection: Writing
I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.Collection: Writing
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.Collection: Writing
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.Collection: Writing
Planning to write is not writing.Collection: Writing
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.Collection: Writing
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.Collection: Writing
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.Collection: Writing
When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.Collection: Writing
It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.Collection: Writing
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know somethingCollection: Writing
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.Collection: Writing
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.Collection: Writing
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.Collection: Writing
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.Collection: Writing
What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.Collection: Writing
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.Collection: Writing
With writing, we have second chances.Collection: Writing
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.Collection: Writing
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.Collection: Writing
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.Collection: Writing
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.Collection: Writing
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.Collection: Writing
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.Collection: Writing
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.Collection: Writing