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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.Collection: Writing
I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock it out and it's in my phone and I can transfer it to my computer and go into the studio and bring it up.Collection: Writing
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.Collection: Writing
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.Collection: Writing
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.Collection: Writing
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.Collection: Writing
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.Collection: Writing
If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.Collection: Writing
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.Collection: Writing
So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.Collection: Writing
Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I spend time looking at her work when I'm writing. I feel like we're working toward the same themes, and I see our work in conversation, whether we know it or not.Collection: Writing
I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think of writing as something that I could do, I should do alongside whatever else I was doing. It simply grew on me.Collection: Writing
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.Collection: Writing
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.Collection: Writing
The right story needs the right telling.Collection: Writing
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.Collection: Writing
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.Collection: Writing
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.Collection: Writing
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.Collection: Writing
By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.Collection: Writing
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.Collection: Writing
I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.Collection: Writing
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.Collection: Writing
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.Collection: Writing
If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.Collection: Writing
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.Collection: Writing
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.Collection: Writing
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve." He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.Collection: Writing
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.Collection: Writing
When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.Collection: Writing
I'm fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my own movies. I don't have to wait for anybody and that's more of what I like doing. But I still think that you don't have to be connected in the industry to make your movie. You just have to write something that is meant to be made cheaply.Collection: Writing
I am not afraid to admit, though slightly ashamed that I Google myself and I see people writing things about me and I get really proud and happy.Collection: Writing
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.Collection: Writing
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.Collection: Writing
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.Collection: Writing
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.Collection: Writing
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.Collection: Writing
Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean.Collection: Writing
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.Collection: Writing
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.Collection: Writing
When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about how you’re presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it’s all coming from you.Collection: Writing
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.Collection: Writing
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.Collection: Writing
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.Collection: Writing
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.Collection: Writing
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.Collection: Writing
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.Collection: Writing
I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that.Collection: Writing
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.Collection: Writing