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Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.Collection: Writing
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.Collection: Writing
When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale." If that were the purpose, everybody would write finales and nothing more. The purpose of the concert is to enjoy each note as you go along.Collection: Writing
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.Collection: Writing
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.Collection: Writing
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.Collection: Writing
When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.Collection: Writing
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.Collection: Writing
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.Collection: Writing
Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.Collection: Writing
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.Collection: Writing
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.Collection: Writing
The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that.Collection: Writing
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.Collection: Writing
Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes I think that what I'm writing now might not even have an impact for the next three or four generations. Sometimes I sit there and write, and I think, "It'll be two hundred years before they get what I'm writing about."Collection: Writing
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.Collection: Writing
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!Collection: Writing
If you want to study writing, read DickensCollection: Writing
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.Collection: Writing
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.Collection: Writing
The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.Collection: Writing
Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."Collection: Writing
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.Collection: Writing
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.Collection: Writing
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.Collection: Writing
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.Collection: Writing
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.Collection: Writing
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.Collection: Writing
Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.Collection: Writing
I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.Collection: Writing
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.Collection: Writing
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.Collection: Writing
I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.Collection: Writing
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.Collection: Writing
While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.Collection: Writing
Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.Collection: Writing
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.Collection: Writing
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.Collection: Writing
Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.Collection: Writing
I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?Collection: Writing
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?Collection: Writing
Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.Collection: Writing
If you wish to write, write.Collection: Writing
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.Collection: Writing
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.Collection: Writing
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.Collection: Writing
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.Collection: Writing
I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a way to sort it out. You know, to externalize it, sort it out, put it down, look at it, and hopefully it would become clearer.Collection: Writing
I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and I thought, "I wonder why these images are abrading against each other. I wonder what happens if put them in a poem and explore them." I'm trying to learn something every time I write a poem.Collection: Writing