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In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."Collection: Writing
The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.Collection: Writing
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.Collection: Writing
I never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change. By the time my stories come out, it will have changed. So I never think much about that.Collection: Writing
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.Collection: Writing
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.Collection: Writing
I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.Collection: Writing
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.Collection: Writing
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.Collection: Writing
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.Collection: Writing
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.Collection: Writing
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.Collection: Writing
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.Collection: Writing
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.Collection: Writing
I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.Collection: Writing
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.Collection: Writing
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.Collection: Writing
You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.Collection: Writing
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.Collection: Writing
Good writing is about telling the truth.Collection: Writing
The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.Collection: Writing
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.Collection: Writing
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.Collection: Writing
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.Collection: Writing
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.Collection: Writing
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.Collection: Writing
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.Collection: Writing
I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.Collection: Writing
The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records; in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.Collection: Writing
I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.Collection: Writing
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.Collection: Writing
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.Collection: Writing
I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.Collection: Writing
To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.Collection: Writing
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?Collection: Writing
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!Collection: Writing
The first condition of immortality is death.Collection: Writing
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.Collection: Writing
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.Collection: Writing
I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.Collection: Writing
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.Collection: Writing
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.Collection: Writing
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.Collection: Writing
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.Collection: Writing
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different. You might think you're writing for yourself, but there are too many other people to please.Collection: Writing
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.Collection: Writing
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.Collection: Writing
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.Collection: Writing