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A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.Collection: Writing
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.Collection: Writing
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).Collection: Writing
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.Collection: Writing
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.Collection: Writing
When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there's no other way to preserve it.Collection: Writing
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.Collection: Writing
I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.Collection: Writing
My all time favorite band is Paramore and she's basically one of the reasons I was inspired... umm, well Hayley Williams from Paramore was one of the basic reasons I wanted to go rock. I saw the band live and they're great together and they write incredible music and also I like a lot of older bands. I like Motley Crue a lot and who else, I've got a lot of favorite bands but those are pretty much the main ones.Collection: Writing
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.Collection: Writing
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.Collection: Writing
I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.Collection: Writing
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.Collection: Writing
I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.Collection: Writing
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.Collection: Writing
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form.Collection: Writing
I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!Collection: Writing
There are terrific TV shows now. This is a golden age for TV humor, I think. There's an actual market there. Of course, I have no idea how you'd break in, but there must be a way. They have all these shows and they need jokes and somebody is writing them.Collection: Writing
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.Collection: Writing
I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.Collection: Writing
The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.Collection: Writing
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.Collection: Writing
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.Collection: Writing
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.Collection: Writing
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.Collection: Writing
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.Collection: Writing
There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.Collection: Writing
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the worldCollection: Writing
I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.Collection: Writing
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?Collection: Writing
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.Collection: Writing
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.Collection: Writing
My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.Collection: Writing
I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.Collection: Writing
When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.Collection: Writing
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.Collection: Writing
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.Collection: Writing
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.Collection: Writing
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)Collection: Writing
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.Collection: Writing
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.Collection: Writing
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.Collection: Writing
From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.Collection: Writing
When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.Collection: Writing
Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.Collection: Writing
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.Collection: Writing
The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.Collection: Writing
I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are?Collection: Writing
When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.Collection: Writing