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Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.Collection: Writing
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.Collection: Writing
When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.Collection: Writing
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.Collection: Writing
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.Collection: Writing
The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through.Collection: Writing
It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."Collection: Writing
Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.Collection: Writing
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.Collection: Writing
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.Collection: Writing
Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.Collection: Writing
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.Collection: Writing
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.Collection: Writing
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detailCollection: Writing
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.Collection: Writing
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.Collection: Writing
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.Collection: Writing
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.Collection: Writing
Money to a writer is time to write.Collection: Writing
I don't want to work with anyone who has not sat down with me and has gotten to know me. I don't want you writing for who you think Jennifer is or the public persona of because that's not who I am. It's my shell, it's the brand, it's the celebrity, but it's not the person.Collection: Writing
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.Collection: Writing
Write as well as you can and finish what you start.Collection: Writing
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.Collection: Writing
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach youCollection: Writing
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?Collection: Writing
I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.Collection: Writing
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.Collection: Writing
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.Collection: Writing
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.Collection: Writing
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.Collection: Writing
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.Collection: Writing
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.Collection: Writing
Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about the working class he was writing about something much more bounded than we're talking about.Collection: Writing
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.Collection: Writing
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.Collection: Writing
I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers, "I don't think I could write any more drafts." I guess I was sort of hoping they would say, "Well that's okay, this last one is perfect." But instead, they said, "It's funny you should say that. We don't think you can write any more drafts either."Collection: Writing
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.Collection: Writing
You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.Collection: Writing
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.Collection: Writing
As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.Collection: Writing
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.Collection: Writing
I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.Collection: Writing
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.Collection: Writing
I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.Collection: Writing
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myselfCollection: Writing
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to writeCollection: Writing
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.Collection: Writing
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.Collection: Writing
A lot of kind of like the way that Andy [Bernard] talks, you know, the writers pick up on those things - little moments that I inject and then they start to write it in later. It's hard to say if a whole storyline is spun out of an improv. I feel like it has happened on The Office, I just can't think of it.Collection: Writing