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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.Collection: Writing
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.Collection: Writing
You write your life story by the choices you make.Collection: Writing
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.Collection: Writing
To memorize something,it's best to write it down.Collection: Writing
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.Collection: Writing
When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes.Collection: Writing
Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.Collection: Writing
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.Collection: Writing
The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.Collection: Writing
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.Collection: Writing
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.Collection: Writing
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.Collection: Writing
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.Collection: Writing
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.Collection: Writing
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.Collection: Writing
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!Collection: Writing
You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central. This is never really admitted. You have to cover the pages. You have to have those people do things. And the things they do have to be relevant to the entire concern. The specific things they do don't much matter, you just have to have them do something that counts.Collection: Writing
If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.Collection: Writing
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.Collection: Writing
I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.Collection: Writing
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.Collection: Writing
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.Collection: Writing
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.Collection: Writing
I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.Collection: Writing
I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.Collection: Writing
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?Collection: Writing
I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.Collection: Writing
I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause.Collection: Writing
Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.Collection: Writing
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.Collection: Writing
I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.Collection: Writing
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.Collection: Writing
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.Collection: Writing
Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.Collection: Writing
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.Collection: Writing
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.Collection: Writing
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be goodCollection: Writing
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.Collection: Writing
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.Collection: Writing
Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'Collection: Writing
I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.Collection: Writing
We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.Collection: Writing
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.Collection: Writing
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.Collection: Writing
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.Collection: Writing
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.Collection: Writing
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.Collection: Writing
I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.Collection: Writing