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If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.Collection: Writing
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.Collection: Writing
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.Collection: Writing
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.Collection: Writing
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.Collection: Writing
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.Collection: Writing
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.Collection: Writing
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.Collection: Writing
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.Collection: Writing
I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school.Collection: Writing
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.Collection: Writing
I write to find out what I think.Collection: Writing
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.Collection: Writing
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.Collection: Writing
Writing good jokes requires effort. Think I'll just start dressing funnier.Collection: Writing
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.Collection: Writing
I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.Collection: Writing
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.Collection: Writing
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.Collection: Writing
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.Collection: Writing
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.Collection: Writing
The exit is usually where the entrance was.Collection: Writing
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.Collection: Writing
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.Collection: Writing
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.Collection: Writing
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!Collection: Writing
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.Collection: Writing
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.Collection: Writing
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.Collection: Writing
I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.Collection: Writing
I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.Collection: Writing
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.Collection: Writing
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.Collection: Writing
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.Collection: Writing
I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it.Collection: Writing
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.Collection: Writing
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.Collection: Writing
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.Collection: Writing
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.Collection: Writing
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.Collection: Writing
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.Collection: Writing
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.Collection: Writing
There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.Collection: Writing
To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.Collection: Writing
Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.Collection: Writing
All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.Collection: Writing
Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.Collection: Writing
It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.Collection: Writing