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There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.Collection: Writing
As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.Collection: Writing
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.Collection: Writing
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.Collection: Writing
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.Collection: Writing
The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?Collection: Writing
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.Collection: Writing
When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.Collection: Writing
I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.Collection: Writing
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.Collection: Writing
The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.Collection: Writing
From where I sit, battles are hard. I’ve written my share. Sometimes I employ the private’s viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That’s vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general’s point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.Collection: Writing
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears.Collection: Writing
Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while we're writing. Or if it's a definition that we want to defend and uphold, we are given a sense of the boundaries within which we can work.Collection: Writing
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.Collection: Writing
[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.Collection: Writing
One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!Collection: Writing
Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.Collection: Writing
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.Collection: Writing
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.Collection: Writing
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.Collection: Writing
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.Collection: Writing
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.Collection: Writing
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.Collection: Writing
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.Collection: Writing
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.Collection: Writing
Once you have MIDI information - I mean, it's a bit technical - that's your paint. You can slow down, pitch up, change notes within a different key. That's the foundation in which you can write things.Collection: Writing
You start to think, when you're finishing a record, in twelve- to fourteen-minute chunks. At a certain point, you do write to the format. It's not a coincidence that most albums are between thirty-five and fifty minutes. It's kind of like the 98-minute film. It becomes some paradigm for human attention in the media.Collection: Writing
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.Collection: Writing
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.Collection: Writing
Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")Collection: Writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.Collection: Writing
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.Collection: Writing
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.Collection: Writing
I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.Collection: Writing
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.Collection: Writing
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.Collection: Writing
Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.Collection: Writing
I don't therefore know how to write for the big papers. It must be kids - students - and retired people. And the reality is they are overwhelmed with people sending in their holiday stories and bits and pieces and so on.Collection: Writing
One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.Collection: Writing
I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.Collection: Writing
I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.Collection: Writing
When you're in a room with a guy who has a vision like that, it's just one of those things where you close your eyes and just see that vision - then you just go with it. The guys that I write with are so incredible, just like my producer Trent Willmon, those guys know how to bring things out of me - especially things that I maybe didn't even know that I had.Collection: Writing
Without changing my style and who I am, they [Trent Willmon and Dan Couch and Dale Oliver ] know how to draw those things out of me. It was a really cool experience on this record, because I tried really hard on the writing to make sure that I wasn't just writing it just like I wanted to.Collection: Writing
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naïve and potentially disastrous.Collection: Writing
I just like doing it, I like writing.Collection: Writing
We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.Collection: Writing
There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.Collection: Writing
I think we need to develop the courage to write from the viewpoint of people who may seem quite different from ourselves, who might have a different sexual orientation or a different race or a different ethnicity.Collection: Writing