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The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.Collection: Writing
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.Collection: Writing
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.Collection: Writing
I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.Collection: Writing
There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.Collection: Writing
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.Collection: Writing
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?Collection: Writing
The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.Collection: Writing
For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.Collection: Writing
I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down, getting words on a page. Graphomania, it's called. I've always had a definite love of stationary products - I used to spend all my pocket-money on pens and notepads. I still do, in a way.Collection: Writing
In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.Collection: Writing
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.Collection: Writing
One writes in order to feel.Collection: Writing
Writing is fifty years behind painting.Collection: Writing
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.Collection: Writing
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.Collection: Writing
In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.Collection: Writing
He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.Collection: Writing
Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.Collection: Writing
I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.Collection: Writing
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.Collection: Writing
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.Collection: Writing
I write to discover what I think.Collection: Writing
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.Collection: Writing
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or notCollection: Writing
I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.Collection: Writing
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'Collection: Writing
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.Collection: Writing
The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be stopped... many men would be made prisoners... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write.Collection: Writing
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.Collection: Writing
If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.Collection: Writing
I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.Collection: Writing
Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.Collection: Writing
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."Collection: Writing
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.Collection: Writing
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.Collection: Writing
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.Collection: Writing
Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs.Collection: Writing
Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.Collection: Writing
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.Collection: Writing
I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.Collection: Writing
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.Collection: Writing
Writing is a bit like being a godCollection: Writing
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.Collection: Writing
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.Collection: Writing
If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.Collection: Writing