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Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.Collection: Writing
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue youCollection: Writing
I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.Collection: Writing
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.Collection: Writing
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.Collection: Writing
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.Collection: Writing
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was just about to earn my Master's along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time.Collection: Writing
I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.Collection: Writing
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.Collection: Writing
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.Collection: Writing
Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.Collection: Writing
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.Collection: Writing
Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then to ignore the violence and create a gentler world in our fiction, or to heighten the violence through the use of point-of-view in order to explore it and gain some insight and understanding. Since I'm living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it's kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it.Collection: Writing
Write even when the world is chaotic.Collection: Writing
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.Collection: Writing
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.Collection: Writing
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.Collection: Writing
[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.Collection: Writing
I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.Collection: Writing
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.Collection: Writing
I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.Collection: Writing
If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.Collection: Writing
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.Collection: Writing
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.Collection: Writing
I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.Collection: Writing
Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.Collection: Writing
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.Collection: Writing
If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.Collection: Writing
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.Collection: Writing
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.Collection: Writing
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.Collection: Writing
When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.Collection: Writing
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.Collection: Writing
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.Collection: Writing
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.Collection: Writing
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.Collection: Writing
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.Collection: Writing
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.Collection: Writing
I wrote on the Grammys, and a few times for Garry Shandling when he was hosting. I couldn't have enjoyed those gigs more, because I would get to collaborate and try to make people I looked up to laugh, but for the most part, when you're as talented as they are, what they really want is someone who can type fast and whose presence makes them feel in the mood to write and spew and be creative, and I was a good person to have in the room.Collection: Writing
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'Collection: Writing
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hardCollection: Writing
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.Collection: Writing
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.Collection: Writing
My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.Collection: Writing
I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.Collection: Writing
I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.Collection: Writing
I need to meet people to be able to write.Collection: Writing
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.Collection: Writing