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All bad writers are in love with the epic.Collection: Writing
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.Collection: Writing
The best writing is certainly when you are in loveCollection: Writing
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.Collection: Writing
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.Collection: Writing
I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.Collection: Writing
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.Collection: Writing
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.Collection: Writing
What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.Collection: Writing
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.Collection: Writing
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.Collection: Writing
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.Collection: Writing
To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.Collection: Writing
One time I said to Jordan [Peele], in a text, "I will pick you up at 2:30. So if you're just standing out in front of the building, we'll go from there to the next meeting. Cool?" And my man just writes, "Wordness to the turdness."Collection: Writing
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.Collection: Writing
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.Collection: Writing
I've been working my way to doing my first feature film for about ten years. So I went through the commercials route and some people come from a theatrical background and some people come from a writing background, but I directed commercialsCollection: Writing
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.Collection: Writing
I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculatedCollection: Writing
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)Collection: Writing
What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.Collection: Writing
After so many deaths I live and write.Collection: Writing
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.Collection: Writing
Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.Collection: Writing
Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.Collection: Writing
I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.Collection: Writing
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.Collection: Writing
You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.Collection: Writing
Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.Collection: Writing
I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.Collection: Writing
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.Collection: Writing
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.Collection: Writing
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."Collection: Writing
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.Collection: Writing
Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.Collection: Writing
The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.Collection: Writing
What I really like to do is to sit quietly and write. All that other stuff is a problem. Publication to reception to negotiation to... everything, it's a problem. And I like to sit outside for long periods of time and just be in the tranquility of nature. That's what I like.Collection: Writing
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.Collection: Writing
All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.Collection: Writing
Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.Collection: Writing
Lena Dunham or Miranda July, those people are sort of thinking about their work in a slightly different way than I do, where their whole body is a seed of what they're creating. I can't imagine watching Miranda's movies with anybody else playing her role, she's so integral. But for me, it feels more like every story is really individual. If I thought of something else, or thought it should be my body representing it, I'd fold my body into it. But most of the time I'm writing to get something out of my body.Collection: Writing
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of it as an "artistic bug" because I didn't necessarily want to be an artist. It's just who I was and how I communicate.Collection: Writing
I'm definitely feeling whatever's going on pretty hard. It's like playing Barbies. You're holding the Barbies, but all of the action is happening inside of your head. You might be holding them or even speaking out loud, but really, all of the animation is internal. That's sort of how I feel about my writing. And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, "Hmm, there's half a page that's good here." Then you throw out everything else.Collection: Writing
Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.Collection: Writing
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.Collection: Writing
I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'Collection: Writing
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.Collection: Writing
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.Collection: Writing
Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.Collection: Writing