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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tiredCollection: Writing
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.Collection: Writing
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.Collection: Writing
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.Collection: Writing
I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance, is what Dickinson did: she refused to be a wife, a homemaker, a standard member of her community. She knew she had to in order to have the space and time to write her poems. Thank god she said no!Collection: Writing
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.Collection: Writing
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.Collection: Writing
Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.Collection: Writing
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.Collection: Writing
While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.Collection: Writing
I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.Collection: Writing
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.Collection: Writing
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.Collection: Writing
He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.Collection: Writing
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.Collection: Writing
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other womenCollection: Writing
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'Collection: Writing
I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.Collection: Writing
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.Collection: Writing
I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.Collection: Writing
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.Collection: Writing
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.Collection: Writing
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.Collection: Writing
There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.Collection: Writing
If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.Collection: Writing
I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.Collection: Writing
It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.Collection: Writing
I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.Collection: Writing
I blundered into writing.Collection: Writing
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.Collection: Writing
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables.Collection: Writing
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.Collection: Writing
On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.Collection: Writing
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.Collection: Writing
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.Collection: Writing
I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.Collection: Writing
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.Collection: Writing
I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.Collection: Writing
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.Collection: Writing
I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.Collection: Writing
I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...Collection: Writing
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.Collection: Writing
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.Collection: Writing
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.Collection: Writing
I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.Collection: Writing
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.Collection: Writing
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.Collection: Writing
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?Collection: Writing
I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.Collection: Writing