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I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.Collection: Writing
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.Collection: Writing
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.Collection: Writing
I like writing about friends.Collection: Writing
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.Collection: Writing
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.Collection: Writing
I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.Collection: Writing
I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.Collection: Writing
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.Collection: Writing
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.Collection: Writing
First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. A ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. Go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. Try out different kinds. Don't get too fancy and expensive. I mostly use a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... You want to be able to feel the connection and texture of the pen on paper.Collection: Writing
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.Collection: Writing
It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.Collection: Writing
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.Collection: Writing
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.Collection: Writing
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.Collection: Writing
Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.Collection: Writing
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.Collection: Writing
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.Collection: Writing
I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.Collection: Writing
Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen how they are guided by mentors to understand particular norms within their disciplines and to learn about what they can and cannot, should and should not say, and which ideas can go together and which cannot. I never went through this process.Collection: Writing
You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.Collection: Writing
Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.Collection: Writing
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.Collection: Writing
There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.Collection: Writing
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.Collection: Writing
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.Collection: Writing
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.Collection: Writing
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.Collection: Writing
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.Collection: Writing
I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.Collection: Writing
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.Collection: Writing
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.Collection: Writing
My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.Collection: Writing
The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.Collection: Writing
If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.Collection: Writing
I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time.Collection: Writing
It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.Collection: Writing
Writing poetry is a state of free float.Collection: Writing
Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.Collection: Writing
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.Collection: Writing
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.Collection: Writing
I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone. You want to put yourself in a position that no matter what you're talking about, everyone can relate to it and understand it, because it's an experience that everyone can go through. That's what I pattern my writing material and jokes after. I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.Collection: Writing
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.Collection: Writing
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.Collection: Writing
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.Collection: Writing
I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.Collection: Writing
Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.Collection: Writing
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.Collection: Writing