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Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?Collection: Writing
When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.Collection: Writing
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventingCollection: Writing
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.Collection: Writing
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.Collection: Writing
It is difficult not to write satire.Collection: Writing
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.Collection: Writing
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.Collection: Writing
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.Collection: Writing
All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.Collection: Writing
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.Collection: Writing
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.Collection: Writing
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.Collection: Writing
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.Collection: Writing
Something that you feel will find its own form.Collection: Writing
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.Collection: Writing
I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.Collection: Writing
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.Collection: Writing
It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.Collection: Writing
It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.Collection: Writing
Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.Collection: Writing
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.Collection: Writing
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.Collection: Writing
Allegories drawn to great length will always break.Collection: Writing
It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.Collection: Writing
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.Collection: Writing
In a way, I was safe writingCollection: Writing
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.Collection: Writing
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.Collection: Writing
The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things. That someone's circumstances may not be what you think they are or what they show to the world.Collection: Writing
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.Collection: Writing
It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.Collection: Writing
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledgeCollection: Writing
I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize him, and that was their way of acknowledging my contributions.Collection: Writing
Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.Collection: Writing
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.Collection: Writing
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.Collection: Writing
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.Collection: Writing
I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something.Collection: Writing
People ask, 'Why would you cast yourself in your movie?' And, for me, it's more like an achievement that I am now not playing all the parts, you know? Like I was for so long, in all my performances and a lot of my short movies. So, that's where I'm coming from, not out of a kind of actress-y sense of myself. I mean, I don't really see myself as an actress, but more from performance: this is how you make something. You do it yourself. You're in it and you write it. I think I keep doing it that way, 'cause it's my way. It's what makes me feel like I know how to do it.Collection: Writing
People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else's lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed.Collection: Writing
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.Collection: Writing
I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.Collection: Writing
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.Collection: Writing
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.Collection: Writing
I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.Collection: Writing
Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.Collection: Writing
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.Collection: Writing
They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.Collection: Writing