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If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.Collection: Writing
We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like your creative-writing class in school. You know, you have the outline and then you just kind of plug the stuff in the little map you've made.Collection: Writing
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.Collection: Writing
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.Collection: Writing
As soon as I sat down to write music, really, with Café Blue. I just can't think about that when I sit down to write. I don't let myself. I actually don't allow myself to look at sales figures. Ever. I get the general impression that I'm not selling like Norah Jones, but I don't really pay too much attention, because I think it would corrupt me.Collection: Writing
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.Collection: Writing
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.Collection: Writing
I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.Collection: Writing
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.Collection: Writing
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.Collection: Writing
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.Collection: Writing
If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.Collection: Writing
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.Collection: Writing
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?Collection: Writing
I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.Collection: Writing
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.Collection: Writing
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.Collection: Writing
Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business planCollection: Writing
Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirstyCollection: Writing
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.Collection: Writing
The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.Collection: Writing
A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.Collection: Writing
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .Collection: Writing
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard aboutCollection: Writing
We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the authorCollection: Writing
A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.Collection: Writing
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!Collection: Writing
Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.Collection: Writing
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.Collection: Writing
Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that are not too imprecise and very understandable. Do not be too stuffy; remove pompous words and substitute them with plain words. Minimize complicated gimmicks and constructions. If you can't give the data directly and briefly, you must consider writing the copy again.Collection: Writing
Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.Collection: Writing
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.Collection: Writing
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.Collection: Writing
When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.Collection: Writing
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.Collection: Writing
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.Collection: Writing
When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.Collection: Writing
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.Collection: Writing
I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.Collection: Writing
When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.Collection: Writing
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .Collection: Writing
I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.Collection: Writing
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.Collection: Writing
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.Collection: Writing
For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.Collection: Writing
Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!Collection: Writing
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.Collection: Writing
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.Collection: Writing
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.Collection: Writing