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I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.Collection: Writing
I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."Collection: Writing
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.Collection: Writing
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).Collection: Writing
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.Collection: Writing
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.Collection: Writing
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.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. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.Collection: Writing
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.Collection: Writing
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16. And have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.Collection: Writing
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.Collection: Writing
I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!Collection: Writing
Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.Collection: Writing
I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.Collection: Writing
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.Collection: Writing
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.Collection: Writing
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.Collection: Writing
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.Collection: Writing
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.Collection: Writing
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.Collection: Writing
I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.Collection: Writing
Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?Collection: Writing
I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.Collection: Writing
You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.Collection: Writing
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.Collection: Writing
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would dieCollection: Writing
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.Collection: Writing
The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.Collection: Writing
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.Collection: Writing
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.Collection: Writing
When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.Collection: Writing
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.Collection: Writing
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.Collection: Writing
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been writtenCollection: Writing
People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.Collection: Writing
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.Collection: Writing
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose itCollection: Writing
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?Collection: Writing
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.Collection: Writing
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.Collection: Writing
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.Collection: Writing
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.Collection: Writing
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.Collection: Writing
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.Collection: Writing
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.Collection: Writing
I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.Collection: Writing
The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.Collection: Writing
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.Collection: Writing