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I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.Collection: Writing
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.Collection: Writing
I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.Collection: Writing
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.Collection: Writing
You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.Collection: Writing
Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.Collection: Writing
For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.Collection: Writing
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.Collection: Writing
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.Collection: Writing
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.Collection: Writing
We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.Collection: Writing
I write with one hand, but I fight with both.Collection: Writing
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.Collection: Writing
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.Collection: Writing
I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.Collection: Writing
I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.Collection: Writing
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.Collection: Writing
There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.Collection: Writing
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.Collection: Writing
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.Collection: Writing
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.Collection: Writing
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric. I've tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn't trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.Collection: Writing
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.Collection: Writing
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.Collection: Writing
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.Collection: Writing
There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.Collection: Writing
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.Collection: Writing
I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.Collection: Writing
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.Collection: Writing
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene... Shakespeare, Milton, Matthew Arnold, even Baudelaire, even this cat whoever he was that wrote Beowulf... the same scene for the same reasons and to the same end, whether it was Dante with his pit or Baudelaire with his pot... the same dull old scene...Collection: Writing
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?Collection: Writing
Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.Collection: Writing
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.Collection: Writing
Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws.Collection: Writing
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.Collection: Writing
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.Collection: Writing
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.Collection: Writing
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.Collection: Writing
History -- its what those bitter old men write.Collection: Writing
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.Collection: Writing
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particularCollection: Writing
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.Collection: Writing
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.Collection: Writing
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.Collection: Writing
I'm creating my own oasis in my house. I've got a lot of calming, soothing things around my house. The way it's set up, it's supposed to just be a breath of fresh air. I can find solace in painting and writing. I honestly love what I do, so it's not too much for me. Creating is something I've always been able to do, whether it's making little cartoons or writing a full-length script. It's something I really, really enjoy. I'm trying to make the best of what I've been given.Collection: Writing
When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.Collection: Writing
I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.Collection: Writing
In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be financed for the next one. I'm assured at least of the next one, but you're always [only] as good as your last film. I think it's true for anyone.Collection: Writing
If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.Collection: Writing