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I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.Collection: Writing
I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."Collection: Writing
I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.Collection: Writing
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.Collection: Writing
The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I hope that my stories serve as explorations and help show readers how and why real-life women don't always make the "correct" decisions in the face of economic and sexual troubles. We all screw up, but the women I write about don't have back-up plans or money in the back or resources to fix what they have broken.Collection: Writing
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.Collection: Writing
I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.Collection: Writing
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.Collection: Writing
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.Collection: Writing
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.Collection: Writing
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.Collection: Writing
I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.Collection: Writing
Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.Collection: Writing
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.Collection: Writing
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.Collection: Writing
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.Collection: Writing
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.Collection: Writing
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.Collection: Writing
I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not encouraged to think; you're encouraged to feel. This is a broad, broad statement. So I think those women who go out on a limb and publish essays are highly conscious of how they are writing their opinions.Collection: Writing
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.Collection: Writing
Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.Collection: Writing
I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian?Collection: Writing
The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.Collection: Writing
There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.Collection: Writing
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.Collection: Writing
I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.Collection: Writing
People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.Collection: Writing
I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.Collection: Writing
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.Collection: Writing
I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.Collection: Writing
We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange.Collection: Writing
If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.Collection: Writing
Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.Collection: Writing
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.Collection: Writing
I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?Collection: Writing
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.Collection: Writing
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.Collection: Writing
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.Collection: Writing
All writing comes by the grace of God.Collection: Writing
I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.Collection: Writing
I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like about movies is they can tell that most movies are a product, and they don't mean that much to the people who make them.Collection: Writing
You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.Collection: Writing
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.Collection: Writing
Character is plot, plot is character.Collection: Writing
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.Collection: Writing
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.Collection: Writing
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.Collection: Writing
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.Collection: Writing