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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.Collection: Writing
People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am very skeptical about the exercise. We don't know very much about how the brain works - we don't even know how you remember to write your name.Collection: Writing
I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.Collection: Writing
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.Collection: Writing
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.Collection: Writing
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.Collection: Writing
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.Collection: Writing
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.Collection: Writing
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.Collection: Writing
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.Collection: Writing
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.Collection: Writing
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.Collection: Writing
Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.Collection: Writing
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.Collection: Writing
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)Collection: Writing
With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."Collection: Writing
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.Collection: Writing
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.Collection: Writing
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.Collection: Writing
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.Collection: Writing
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.Collection: Writing
They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.Collection: Writing
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.Collection: Writing
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.Collection: Writing
Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.Collection: Writing
I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.Collection: Writing
There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.Collection: Writing
I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.Collection: Writing
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check.Collection: Writing
I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on stage as a stand-up comedian with untested material. I was saying it out loud for the first time that night. It didn't go how I expected, but in the best possible way.Collection: Writing
Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.Collection: Writing
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.Collection: Writing
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.Collection: Writing
Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.Collection: Writing
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world.Collection: Writing
Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.Collection: Writing
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.Collection: Writing
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.Collection: Writing
We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.Collection: Writing
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's doneCollection: Writing
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic styleCollection: Writing
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a codeCollection: Writing
More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.Collection: Writing
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.Collection: Writing
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.Collection: Writing
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.Collection: Writing
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.Collection: Writing
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.Collection: Writing
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.Collection: Writing