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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.Collection: Writing
Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.Collection: Writing
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.Collection: Writing
I'm composing and writing music.Collection: Writing
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.Collection: Writing
All you can write is what you see.Collection: Writing
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.Collection: Writing
In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.Collection: Writing
I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.Collection: Writing
My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.Collection: Writing
Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.Collection: Writing
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.Collection: Writing
I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.Collection: Writing
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.Collection: Writing
I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in exercising his vision was almost an acting exercise: How would I write if I were Paul? When I look at it, it feels so completely his, but it's also mine.Collection: Writing
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.Collection: Writing
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.Collection: Writing
I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?Collection: Writing
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.Collection: Writing
The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.Collection: Writing
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.Collection: Writing
The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you try to write good sentences. But in a novel you're free to do whatever you want, and in the autobiographical works you can't make things up.Collection: Writing
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.Collection: Writing
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.Collection: Writing
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.Collection: Writing
It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other.Collection: Writing
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.Collection: Writing
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.Collection: Writing
When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens to me in Prague I'm not going to use the name Kafka, I'm just not going to do it. I won't do it; it's so easy, everyone else does, I'm not going to. I'll write the first non-Kafka mentioning piece.Collection: Writing
The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.Collection: Writing
Worry destroys the ability to write.Collection: Writing
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.Collection: Writing
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.Collection: Writing
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.Collection: Writing
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.Collection: Writing
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.Collection: Writing
Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.Collection: Writing
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.Collection: Writing
I'm what happens after death, which is writing.Collection: Writing
To write has to be related to a drive inside.Collection: Writing
I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.Collection: Writing
I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.Collection: Writing
My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.Collection: Writing
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.Collection: Writing
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.Collection: Writing
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.Collection: Writing
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.Collection: Writing
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.Collection: Writing