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I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.Collection: Writing
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.Collection: Writing
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.Collection: Writing
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.Collection: Writing
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.Collection: Writing
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.Collection: Writing
I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.Collection: Writing
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.Collection: Writing
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.Collection: Writing
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.Collection: Writing
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.Collection: Writing
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.Collection: Writing
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.Collection: Writing
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.Collection: Writing
He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.Collection: Writing
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.Collection: Writing
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.Collection: Writing
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.Collection: Writing
There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.Collection: Writing
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.Collection: Writing
In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.Collection: Writing
Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.Collection: Writing
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.Collection: Writing
It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.Collection: Writing
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.Collection: Writing
Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.Collection: Writing
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.Collection: Writing
The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.Collection: Writing
The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.Collection: Writing
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.Collection: Writing
I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.Collection: Writing
One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.Collection: Writing
Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.Collection: Writing
Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.Collection: Writing
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.Collection: Writing
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.Collection: Writing
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.Collection: Writing
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.Collection: Writing
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of courseCollection: Writing
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myselfCollection: Writing
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does thatCollection: Writing
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matterCollection: Writing
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a titleCollection: Writing
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.Collection: Writing
As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational.Collection: Writing
Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.Collection: Writing
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.Collection: Writing
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.Collection: Writing
How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.Collection: Writing