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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.Collection: Writing
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.Collection: Writing
I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.Collection: Writing
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.Collection: Writing
If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.Collection: Writing
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.Collection: Writing
Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.Collection: Writing
Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!Collection: Writing
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.Collection: Writing
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.Collection: Writing
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?Collection: Writing
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.Collection: Writing
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.Collection: Writing
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Collection: Writing
Some people drop their wings in order to grow a humpCollection: Writing
He who limps is still walking.Collection: Writing
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.Collection: Writing
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.Collection: Writing
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.Collection: Writing
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.Collection: Writing
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.Collection: Writing
When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.Collection: Writing
Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.Collection: Writing
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.Collection: Writing
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.Collection: Writing
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.Collection: Writing
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.Collection: Writing
It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.Collection: Writing
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.Collection: Writing
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.Collection: Writing
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.Collection: Writing
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.Collection: Writing
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.Collection: Writing
Set goals that are well balanced-not too many nor too few, and not too high nor too low. Write down your attainable goals and work on them according to their importance. Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.Collection: Writing
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!Collection: Writing
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichés.Collection: Writing
What I don't write is as important as what I write.Collection: Writing
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.Collection: Writing
You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her!Collection: Writing
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.Collection: Writing
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.Collection: Writing
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.Collection: Writing
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.Collection: Writing
Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap.Collection: Writing
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?Collection: Writing
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.Collection: Writing
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.Collection: Writing
We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.Collection: Writing
I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.Collection: Writing