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If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"Collection: Writing
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.Collection: Writing
Every woman who writes is a survivor.Collection: Writing
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.Collection: Writing
Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.Collection: Writing
I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)Collection: Writing
You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.Collection: Writing
My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart.Collection: Writing
I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.Collection: Writing
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.Collection: Writing
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.Collection: Writing
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.Collection: Writing
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.Collection: Writing
We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.Collection: Writing
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.Collection: Writing
I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.Collection: Writing
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.Collection: Writing
I write the way I write.Collection: Writing
Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.Collection: Writing
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.Collection: Writing
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.Collection: Writing
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.Collection: Writing
I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.Collection: Writing
Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.Collection: Writing
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal lifeCollection: Writing
You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.Collection: Writing
I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.Collection: Writing
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.Collection: Writing
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.Collection: Writing
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.Collection: Writing
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.Collection: Writing
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know itCollection: Writing
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.Collection: Writing
Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.Collection: Writing
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.Collection: Writing
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.Collection: Writing
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.Collection: Writing
Writing is an antisocial act.Collection: Writing
Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also dont be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.Collection: Writing
As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.Collection: Writing
I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.Collection: Writing
There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.Collection: Writing
Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.Collection: Writing
Don't write slogans, write truths.Collection: Writing
Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.Collection: Writing
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.Collection: Writing
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.Collection: Writing
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.Collection: Writing