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Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.Collection: Writing
I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.Collection: Writing
I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.Collection: Writing
Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worstCollection: Writing
I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.Collection: Writing
I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.Collection: Writing
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.Collection: Writing
You cannot write well without data.Collection: Writing
I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.Collection: Writing
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.Collection: Writing
I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is, that's secondary.Collection: Writing
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.Collection: Writing
You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.Collection: Writing
Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all.Collection: Writing
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.Collection: Writing
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.Collection: Writing
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.Collection: Writing
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.Collection: Writing
Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.Collection: Writing
The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.Collection: Writing
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.Collection: Writing
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.Collection: Writing
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.Collection: Writing
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.Collection: Writing
After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human handsCollection: Writing
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.Collection: Writing
Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.Collection: Writing
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.Collection: Writing
I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.Collection: Writing
I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.Collection: Writing
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.Collection: Writing
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.Collection: Writing
Because I'm a musician aspiring to write good stuff and put on good shows, I'm hyperaware of what they're doing and what they're putting out. But listening now in a less critical way, I'm appreciating and admiring it even more.Collection: Writing
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.Collection: Writing
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would make for incredibly boring writing, at least to my taste. Creating someone I don't know and her made-up world shows us more about who we are - is actually a better mirror - than if I were to parade in front of you an instantly recognizable person in an instantly recognizable situation. I'm not saying, Let's make it all abstract and weird and difficult and thereby you will know more about yourself. My process is much more organic than that.Collection: Writing
The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.Collection: Writing
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for meCollection: Writing
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.Collection: Writing
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.Collection: Writing
There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city.Collection: Writing
To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.Collection: Writing
When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.Collection: Writing
Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.Collection: Writing
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.Collection: Writing
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL.Collection: Writing
I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.Collection: Writing
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.Collection: Writing
I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.Collection: Writing
I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.Collection: Writing