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Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.Collection: Writing
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.Collection: Writing
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.Collection: Writing
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.Collection: Writing
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.Collection: Writing
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.Collection: Writing
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.Collection: Writing
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!Collection: Writing
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.Collection: Writing
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.Collection: Writing
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.Collection: Writing
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.Collection: Writing
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.Collection: Writing
I put my filter on, though, and I only see things people I follow [on Twitter] write now. So, I don't even know anymore [ trolls].Collection: Writing
The more a man writes, the more he can write.Collection: Writing
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.Collection: Writing
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.Collection: Writing
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.Collection: Writing
Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.Collection: Writing
I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them.Collection: Writing
It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.Collection: Writing
It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.Collection: Writing
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.Collection: Writing
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone elseCollection: Writing
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.Collection: Writing
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.Collection: Writing
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.Collection: Writing
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...Collection: Writing
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.Collection: Writing
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.Collection: Writing
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.Collection: Writing
It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.Collection: Writing
Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.Collection: Writing
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.Collection: Writing
All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.Collection: Writing
I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.Collection: Writing
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.Collection: Writing
I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.Collection: Writing
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.Collection: Writing
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.Collection: Writing
Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.Collection: Writing
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.Collection: Writing
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.Collection: Writing
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.Collection: Writing
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.Collection: Writing
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.Collection: Writing
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.Collection: Writing
From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.Collection: Writing
How can you contrive to write so even?Collection: Writing