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If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.Collection: Writing
Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.Collection: Writing
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.Collection: Writing
One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.Collection: Writing
Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.Collection: Writing
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.Collection: Writing
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.Collection: Writing
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.Collection: Writing
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.Collection: Writing
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.Collection: Writing
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.Collection: Writing
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.Collection: Writing
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.Collection: Writing
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.Collection: Writing
From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?Collection: Writing
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.Collection: Writing
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.Collection: Writing
In a good play, everyone is in the right.Collection: Writing
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.Collection: Writing
Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.Collection: Writing
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.Collection: Writing
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.Collection: Writing
Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.Collection: Writing
I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.Collection: Writing
I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.Collection: Writing
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.Collection: Writing
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.Collection: Writing
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.Collection: Writing
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.Collection: Writing
I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.Collection: Writing
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.Collection: Writing
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.Collection: Writing
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.Collection: Writing
I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.Collection: Writing
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.Collection: Writing
You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.Collection: Writing
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.Collection: Writing
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.Collection: Writing
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.Collection: Writing
To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.Collection: Writing
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.Collection: Writing
There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.Collection: Writing
It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.Collection: Writing
Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.Collection: Writing
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this isCollection: Writing
While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.Collection: Writing
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.Collection: Writing