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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.Collection: Writing
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.Collection: Writing
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.Collection: Writing
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.Collection: Writing
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)Collection: Writing
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.Collection: Writing
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.Collection: Writing
You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.Collection: Writing
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.Collection: Writing
I can't start writing until I have a closing line.Collection: Writing
I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.Collection: Writing
In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.Collection: Writing
My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.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 nerves.Collection: Writing
When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.Collection: Writing
I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.Collection: Writing
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.Collection: Writing
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.Collection: Writing
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.Collection: Writing
The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.Collection: Writing
I write storys to entertain not to be the bestCollection: Writing
If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy.Collection: Writing
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.Collection: Writing
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.Collection: Writing
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.Collection: Writing
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.Collection: Writing
I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.Collection: Writing
Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.Collection: Writing
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.Collection: Writing
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.Collection: Writing
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.Collection: Writing
Live it up so you can write it down.Collection: Writing
Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.Collection: Writing
Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.Collection: Writing
One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.Collection: Writing
Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.Collection: Writing
When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vague ambition of becoming a writer and I was trying to write poems and essays and stories, I didn't feel like I was far enough along to submit work to some place and have it judged.Collection: Writing
The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.Collection: Writing
During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.Collection: Writing
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.Collection: Writing
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.Collection: Writing
Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.Collection: Writing
I feel like there are a lot of artists that you could put together that you love, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to make amazing music. Giving an artist a great theme to write about doesn't mean the song's going to be good.Collection: Writing
Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook. I guess for us, it just kind of feels like we want to explore ourselves more. That sounds kind of cheesy, but I don't know. I have a lot of artists whose music I have this perfect relationship with, and I don't really feel like I need to meet them or get to know them or write with them because of it.Collection: Writing
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.Collection: Writing
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.Collection: Writing
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.Collection: Writing
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.Collection: Writing
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.Collection: Writing