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Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.Collection: Writing
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.Collection: Writing
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.Collection: Writing
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.Collection: Writing
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.Collection: Writing
There is no rule on how to write.Collection: Writing
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.Collection: Writing
I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.Collection: Writing
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.Collection: Writing
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.Collection: Writing
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinatingCollection: Writing
It's the writing that teaches you.Collection: Writing
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.Collection: Writing
I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.Collection: Writing
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.Collection: Writing
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.Collection: Writing
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writingCollection: Writing
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm workingCollection: Writing
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelistCollection: Writing
I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.Collection: Writing
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.Collection: Writing
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.Collection: Writing
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.Collection: Writing
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.Collection: Writing
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.Collection: Writing
You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.Collection: Writing
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.Collection: Writing
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.Collection: Writing
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.Collection: Writing
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.Collection: Writing
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.Collection: Writing
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.Collection: Writing
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.Collection: Writing
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could writeCollection: Writing
I had been writing professionally since 1988Collection: Writing
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.Collection: Writing
Blank pages inspire me with terror.Collection: Writing
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.Collection: Writing
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.Collection: Writing
The only kind of writing is rewriting.Collection: Writing
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.Collection: Writing
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.Collection: Writing
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspectiveCollection: Writing
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.Collection: Writing
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.Collection: Writing
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.Collection: Writing
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.Collection: Writing