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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Collection: Writing
People I admire have two qualities: a kind of simplicity, and generosity of spirit. It seems to me that the more impressive people are in what they have done, the simpler they tend to be in how they talk to you, or in what they say or write.Collection: Writing
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.Collection: Writing
You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems.Collection: Writing
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.Collection: Writing
That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in Podunk is up to. Many of the people who write what we call amateur criticism are professionals in anything other than name and receiving a paycheck. Very often, they know more than the professional critic who might be writing for their local newspaper. So, really, I'm all for it. It's changing the playing field, it's shaking things up, it's going to make the critical environment a healthier environment.Collection: Writing
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to find? Are there new primary sources that no one has ever had access to? Are all the sources in English? If they're not, are they in a language that you speak? And I realized that not only is Armstrong the most important figure of Jazz in the 20th Century, but he's a perfect subject for a biography for all of these reasons. I had always loved his music and I had been fascinated in him as a personality. And that's really the key to writing a biography.Collection: Writing
There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary way of distributing what they talk about is through blogs and on the web. The line between professional and amateur criticism will become increasingly blurred. The problem here is that if you want to do this for a living, you have to be able to earn a living doing it.Collection: Writing
If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors.Collection: Writing
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis WilkieCollection: Writing
The level above Man is called the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God in the Gospels. It has many other names in different writings. In the Gospels, it is said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is at a higher level of a man. To reach it, a man must reach a higher level in himself. If everyone did this, the level of life on this earth would change.Collection: Writing
I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.Collection: Writing
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.Collection: Writing
If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.Collection: Writing
You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.Collection: Writing
When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding ourselves of what we had in mind when we wrote it.Collection: Writing
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.Collection: Writing
I dont want to write, Id rather draw.Collection: Writing
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.Collection: Writing
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.Collection: Writing
I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.Collection: Writing
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.Collection: Writing
I research, write, travel and teach. I rarely arrange for spare time. If we do not fill our days with high priority actions they will fill with low priority actions. I would prefer to live my life according to my highest priorities and do what I love, which again is research, write, travel and teach. It is my mission and calling. It is what inspires me. It is my destiny.Collection: Writing
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?Collection: Writing
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.Collection: Writing
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.Collection: Writing
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!Collection: Writing
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.Collection: Writing
Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.Collection: Writing
I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of musicCollection: Writing
Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.Collection: Writing
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.Collection: Writing
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.Collection: Writing
In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.Collection: Writing
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.Collection: Writing
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.Collection: Writing
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.Collection: Writing
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.Collection: Writing
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.Collection: Writing
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.Collection: Writing
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.Collection: Writing
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.Collection: Writing
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately it is a folk-art form.Collection: Writing
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.Collection: Writing
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.Collection: Writing
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.Collection: Writing
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.Collection: Writing
Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.Collection: Writing
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.Collection: Writing