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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.Collection: Writing
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.Collection: Writing
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.Collection: Writing
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment, they've been about disseminating facts. But I feel like it could be productive to write something that explored directly the idea of fragility.Collection: Writing
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.Collection: Writing
To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.Collection: Writing
It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.Collection: Writing
But the script's got to be at a level that makes it worth going back for, because it's a lot of work to make a movie like this and it's a multi-year project. So we've got our writer Jesse Wigutow on it right now writing, and fingers crossed if it all comes together, as we hope it will, there could be another Tron in the next few years, and it's going to be awesome.Collection: Writing
Writing is not primarily escape, but use.Collection: Writing
But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.Collection: Writing
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.Collection: Writing
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.Collection: Writing
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.Collection: Writing
I never said I was a weightlifter. I never said I was trained. I'm not a personal trainer. I just enjoy working out. So sometimes I feel like, do I have to write a disclaimer? Like, disclaimer: "I'm not a trainer."Collection: Writing
When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.Collection: Writing
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."Collection: Writing
Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.Collection: Writing
In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.Collection: Writing
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.Collection: Writing
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.Collection: Writing
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.Collection: Writing
It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.Collection: Writing
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.Collection: Writing
The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'Collection: Writing
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.Collection: Writing
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?Collection: Writing
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.Collection: Writing
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.Collection: Writing
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.Collection: Writing
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.Collection: Writing
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.Collection: Writing
There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.Collection: Writing
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.Collection: Writing
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.Collection: Writing
What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you cannot provide incentives for the openings of accounts, but I think it gets to be a deeper issue of the value structure of any organization and the value of its leaders.Collection: Writing
You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"Collection: Writing
About a year after I moved to Los Angeles, I decided I wanted to be a joke writer for a late night talk show. So I met with a late night joke writer and he told me that I should start by doing stand-up comedy, because that would really hone my sense of humor and joke writing ability. Eventually I took a stand-up class and a few months later I had a seven-minute act.Collection: Writing
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.Collection: Writing
Even now, it's so funny how much we do have in common and how much her experiences were similar to mine. But I just wanted to be like 'If I'm going to do it, I'm going to write all of my own music, every lyric, and all this stuff.Collection: Writing
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.Collection: Writing
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.Collection: Writing
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.Collection: Writing
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.Collection: Writing
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.Collection: Writing
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.Collection: Writing
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."Collection: Writing
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.Collection: Writing
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.Collection: Writing