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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.Collection: Writing
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.Collection: Writing
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.Collection: Writing
I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. It's more that I wanted to see what it would be like if I didn't have to collaborate with anybody, to have a sense of purity of the thing from beginning to end. I liked doing it. It's really different from writing. Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.Collection: Writing
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.Collection: Writing
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.Collection: Writing
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.Collection: Writing
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.Collection: Writing
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.Collection: Writing
Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.Collection: Writing
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.Collection: Writing
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become ShakespeareCollection: Writing
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.Collection: Writing
I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.Collection: Writing
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?Collection: Writing
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.Collection: Writing
I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It wasn't until I was in high school that I was like, "I guess I like writing dialogue." So that's how I got into it.Collection: Writing
When I've acted, and it's not been something I've written or have had at least a hand in writing, I do think there is a controlling side of me that is frustrated by that. And I actually don't think that it's a bad thing, because if I'm going to be in movies, in large part they're going to be movies that I write.Collection: Writing
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.Collection: Writing
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.Collection: Writing
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writingCollection: Writing
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something insteadCollection: Writing
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.Collection: Writing
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.Collection: Writing
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.Collection: Writing
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.Collection: Writing
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.Collection: Writing
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.Collection: Writing
we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.Collection: Writing
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.Collection: Writing
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.Collection: Writing
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.Collection: Writing
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.Collection: Writing
I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.Collection: Writing
I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.Collection: Writing
I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.Collection: Writing
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.Collection: Writing
The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.Collection: Writing
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."Collection: Writing
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.Collection: Writing
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'Collection: Writing
With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.Collection: Writing
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.Collection: Writing
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.Collection: Writing
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.Collection: Writing
To hell with facts! We need stories.Collection: Writing
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.Collection: Writing
Undisputed ends when I return to the WWE in 2007. There is already 3 ½ years of material including the 3 best years of my career. Undisputed is going to do even better than A Lion's Tale, there is no reason to not do #3. The material I have for #3 is just as good as the first 2. I still have a few years to go before I write but I would definitely like to write another one. But it is not about the numbers, it is about the quality. If I don't think it would be as good, I won't do itCollection: Writing