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I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.Collection: Writing
Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.Collection: Writing
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out over time on stage and in front of people until it becomes a full bit.Collection: Writing
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.Collection: Writing
I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I'm cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting.Collection: Writing
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.Collection: Writing
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.Collection: Writing
I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.Collection: Writing
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.Collection: Writing
I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.Collection: Writing
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.Collection: Writing
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.Collection: Writing
I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.Collection: Writing
To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.Collection: Writing
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.Collection: Writing
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.Collection: Writing
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?Collection: Writing
I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.Collection: Writing
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.Collection: Writing
Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.Collection: Writing
Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like.Collection: Writing
American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.Collection: Writing
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.Collection: Writing
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.Collection: Writing
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writingCollection: Writing
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.Collection: Writing
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.Collection: Writing
When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.Collection: Writing
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.Collection: Writing
David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.Collection: Writing
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.Collection: Writing
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.Collection: Writing
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.Collection: Writing
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.Collection: Writing
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.Collection: Writing
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.Collection: Writing
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.Collection: Writing
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.Collection: Writing
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.Collection: Writing
Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)Collection: Writing
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.Collection: Writing
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!Collection: Writing
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.Collection: Writing
I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.Collection: Writing
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.Collection: Writing
I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.Collection: Writing
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.Collection: Writing
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.Collection: Writing
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.Collection: Writing