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The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.Collection: Writing
My devils and angels, fears and hopes, insights and stupidities, loves and loathings, are what they are. I don't edit them out so much as try to make them interesting - whether I am talking to you, or writing a poem, or joking with my kids, or speaking on television.Collection: Writing
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.Collection: Writing
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.Collection: Writing
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.Collection: Writing
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.Collection: Writing
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.Collection: Writing
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.Collection: Writing
It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.Collection: Writing
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.Collection: Writing
Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.Collection: Writing
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three of one's closest friends, (2) claiming that a result has applications, (3) mentioning the word 'combinatorial,' and (4) claiming that algebraic geometry existed before Grothendieck (only some handwaving references to 'the Italians' are allowed provided they are not supported by specific references).Collection: Writing
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)Collection: Writing
I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.Collection: Writing
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.Collection: Writing
History is what we read, write and think about the past.Collection: Writing
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.Collection: Writing
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.Collection: Writing
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.Collection: Writing
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.Collection: Writing
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.Collection: Writing
Writing is thinking on paper.Collection: Writing
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people doCollection: Writing
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.Collection: Writing
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.Collection: Writing
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.Collection: Writing
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.Collection: Writing
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.Collection: Writing
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.Collection: Writing
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?Collection: Writing
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.Collection: Writing
If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.Collection: Writing
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.Collection: Writing
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.Collection: Writing
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.Collection: Writing
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.Collection: Writing
Every word written is a victory against death.Collection: Writing
I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.Collection: Writing
The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.Collection: Writing
There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."Collection: Writing
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.Collection: Writing
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.Collection: Writing
I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.Collection: Writing
I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.Collection: Writing
To write is to inform against others.Collection: Writing
The men who make history have not time to write it.Collection: Writing
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.Collection: Writing
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.Collection: Writing
It's harder to read code than to write it.Collection: Writing