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When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.Collection: Writing
The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.Collection: Writing
People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.Collection: Writing
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.Collection: Writing
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.Collection: Writing
Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!Collection: Writing
Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.Collection: Writing
When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.Collection: Writing
Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.Collection: Writing
Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!Collection: Writing
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.Collection: Writing
I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.Collection: Writing
If you like not my writing, go read something else.Collection: Writing
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.Collection: Writing
I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's the toughest part for me and I definitely think I'm growing in that way, which feels exciting.Collection: Writing
Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.Collection: Writing
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.Collection: Writing
When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society.Collection: Writing
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.Collection: Writing
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.Collection: Writing
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.Collection: Writing
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.Collection: Writing
There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.Collection: Writing
Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.Collection: Writing
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.Collection: Writing
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness.Collection: Writing
Observe, don't imitate.Collection: Writing
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.Collection: Writing
My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.Collection: Writing
Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there.Collection: Writing
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.Collection: Writing
Well, if you can't then write in the press or put on television the importance of parents changing what they're doing, then the safe way out is to say, "Look, learning disabilities is probably genes. ADHD, probably genes." And that is the political alternative to not blaming the victim.Collection: Writing
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?Collection: Writing
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.Collection: Writing
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.Collection: Writing
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.Collection: Writing
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.Collection: Writing
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.Collection: Writing
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.Collection: Writing
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.Collection: Writing
I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.Collection: Writing
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Collection: Writing
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!Collection: Writing
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.Collection: Writing
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.Collection: Writing
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.Collection: Writing
At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.Collection: Writing
I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.Collection: Writing