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Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!Collection: Writing
The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer. The hope that elves will come in the night and finish it for you, is a very common one to have. That is my main recommendation - you have to write, and you have to finish what you write and beyond that, it's all detail.Collection: Writing
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.Collection: Writing
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.Collection: Writing
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.Collection: Writing
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.Collection: Writing
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do itCollection: Writing
In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying in the heat of your own emotions. You are offering up some good solid bread for the hungry.Collection: Writing
When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mindCollection: Writing
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.Collection: Writing
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.Collection: Writing
I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.Collection: Writing
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.Collection: Writing
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.Collection: Writing
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?Collection: Writing
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.Collection: Writing
The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.Collection: Writing
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and othersCollection: Writing
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.Collection: Writing
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.Collection: Writing
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.Collection: Writing
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.Collection: Writing
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.Collection: Writing
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.Collection: Writing
I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen.Collection: Writing
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.Collection: Writing
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.Collection: Writing
It rarely happens that I get to work again with the same director. I had such a wonderful time on Antichrist with Lars von Trier, that I was going to do whatever he proposed me to do. When he sent me the script of Christmas, I just loved it. I think I love anything he writes.Collection: Writing
I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.Collection: Writing
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.Collection: Writing
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.Collection: Writing
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".Collection: Writing
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was.Collection: Writing
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.Collection: Writing
Writers need each other.Collection: Writing
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.Collection: Writing
Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.Collection: Writing
I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.Collection: Writing
I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.Collection: Writing
For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did that word for word and that worked pretty well. Now, I do almost all of my writing on stage and then record and listen for any new things and then I write those down.Collection: Writing
Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.Collection: Writing
On the whole, stories don't write themselves.Collection: Writing
When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."Collection: Writing
There's a fake Facebook me. There's a fake me Twittering. Sometimes, when it was at the height of right-wing nonsense picking on me, there would be a fake me writing letters to the editor. Just totally not even something I've ever said, that will then become part of the echo chamber.Collection: Writing
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.Collection: Writing
The historian records, but the novelist creates.Collection: Writing
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.Collection: Writing
The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.Collection: Writing
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.Collection: Writing