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When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.Collection: Writing
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.Collection: Writing
Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.Collection: Writing
Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.Collection: Writing
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.Collection: Writing
I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.Collection: Writing
Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.Collection: Writing
I write because I can’t sleep.Collection: Writing
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.Collection: Writing
Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.Collection: Writing
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applauseCollection: Writing
The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around itCollection: Writing
Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible wayCollection: Writing
I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good.Collection: Writing
It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.Collection: Writing
You must write for the waste basket.Collection: Writing
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.Collection: Writing
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.Collection: Writing
The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.Collection: Writing
I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.Collection: Writing
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.Collection: Writing
We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writingsCollection: Writing
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.Collection: Writing
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.Collection: Writing
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.Collection: Writing
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.Collection: Writing
We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.Collection: Writing
When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.Collection: Writing
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.Collection: Writing
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.Collection: Writing
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.Collection: Writing
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.Collection: Writing
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.Collection: Writing
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.Collection: Writing
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.Collection: Writing
I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.Collection: Writing
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.Collection: Writing
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.Collection: Writing
It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.Collection: Writing
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.Collection: Writing
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.Collection: Writing
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.Collection: Writing
Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is patient with you, and you'll learn to be patient with others.Collection: Writing
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.Collection: Writing
I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.Collection: Writing
He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.Collection: Writing
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.Collection: Writing
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.Collection: Writing