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The writer must hew the phantom rock.Collection: Writing
I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.Collection: Writing
Actually, if I had to do it over [leaving the show the West Wing], I'd do the same thing, because lost in the shuffle of it is that Aaron [Sorkin] left the same year I did. And I would not have wanted to be on The West Wing with somebody else writing it.Collection: Writing
I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point?Collection: Writing
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.Collection: Writing
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.Collection: Writing
You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.Collection: Writing
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.Collection: Writing
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.Collection: Writing
I think that I speak a lot like I write.Collection: Writing
A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.Collection: Writing
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.Collection: Writing
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.Collection: Writing
While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.Collection: Writing
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.Collection: Writing
Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.Collection: Writing
The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.Collection: Writing
I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.Collection: Writing
My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.Collection: Writing
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.Collection: Writing
I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.Collection: Writing
I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.Collection: Writing
Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without implying that celestials have their heads in the clouds or that terrestrials have theirs buried in the ground. The difference between these two types is not so much in their theories but in whether or not they would find it a very sad thing if it turned out that the only way a human is superior to a wolf is this: the human brain is significantly more capacious and complex.Collection: Writing
I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.Collection: Writing
Writing, for me, is a search for God.Collection: Writing
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.Collection: Writing
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.Collection: Writing
I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.Collection: Writing
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.Collection: Writing
Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.Collection: Writing
A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.Collection: Writing
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.Collection: Writing
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.Collection: Writing
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.Collection: Writing
I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.Collection: Writing
Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.Collection: Writing
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.Collection: Writing
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.Collection: Writing
I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!Collection: Writing
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.Collection: Writing
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?Collection: Writing
Isaiah the prophet, Isaiah's second son was - his symbolic name was Mahershalalhashbaz. And Isaiah was - the Prophet Isaiah was instructed to write the name in all capital letters as a prophecy. And it means hasten to the spoils, speedy as the prey.Collection: Writing
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'Collection: Writing
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.Collection: Writing
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.Collection: Writing
Look, then, into thine heart, and write!Collection: Writing