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When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."Collection: Writing
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.Collection: Writing
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.Collection: Writing
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.Collection: Writing
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.Collection: Writing
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.Collection: Writing
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.Collection: Writing
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.Collection: Writing
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.Collection: Writing
When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.Collection: Writing
Writing is a political instrument.Collection: Writing
My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.Collection: Writing
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.Collection: Writing
In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.Collection: Writing
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.Collection: Writing
I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.Collection: Writing
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.Collection: Writing
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?Collection: Writing
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.Collection: Writing
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.Collection: Writing
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.Collection: Writing
I just write when fear overtakes me.Collection: Writing
To write is human, to edit is divine.Collection: Writing
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.Collection: Writing
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.Collection: Writing
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.Collection: Writing
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.Collection: Writing
It is true that the Drive-By Media is not spending a lot of time covering the Donald Trump Middle East trip. The reason is, they don't want to write or televise any of this because it's in such stark contrast to the pictures they've been painting of Trump. It's so incongruent. It's so inconsistent. In addition to all else, it is the protection of the Barack Obama legacy.Collection: Writing
Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.Collection: Writing
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.Collection: Writing
When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.Collection: Writing
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.Collection: Writing
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.Collection: Writing
I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.Collection: Writing
Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.Collection: Writing
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.Collection: Writing
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. WhatsitCollection: Writing
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.Collection: Writing
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.Collection: Writing
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.Collection: Writing
I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.Collection: Writing
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.Collection: Writing
I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.Collection: Writing
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.Collection: Writing
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.Collection: Writing
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.Collection: Writing
Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.Collection: Writing
I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writingCollection: Writing
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.Collection: Writing