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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.Collection: Writing
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.Collection: Writing
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.Collection: Writing
When you write a goal down your subconscious brain begins to more actively think about bringing into your life the people, resources and knowledge you need to achieve your goals.Collection: Writing
The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.Collection: Writing
The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like there's no tomorrow!'...as I recall, I didn't write that ticket.Collection: Writing
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.Collection: Writing
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.Collection: Writing
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.Collection: Writing
Writing is the only way I know how to pray.Collection: Writing
Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.Collection: Writing
Everything I say about [writing] battles applies equally well in the boudoir.Collection: Writing
I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.Collection: Writing
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the charactersCollection: Writing
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!Collection: Writing
Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.Collection: Writing
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.Collection: Writing
It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.Collection: Writing
My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.Collection: Writing
I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.Collection: Writing
Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.Collection: Writing
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.Collection: Writing
Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.Collection: Writing
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.Collection: Writing
I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.Collection: Writing
Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hellCollection: Writing
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.Collection: Writing
In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.Collection: Writing
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.Collection: Writing
You have to throw yourself away when you write.Collection: Writing
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.Collection: Writing
I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.Collection: Writing
To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t know when I was younger — and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If you’re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think you’re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.Collection: Writing
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.Collection: Writing
Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.Collection: Writing
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.Collection: Writing
I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.Collection: Writing
Write the poem only you can write.Collection: Writing
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.Collection: Writing
The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.Collection: Writing
The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone who would seriously study the neurobiology of behavior: Is the mind organized horizontally or vertically or both, and what are the consequences to psychology of proceeding on one assumption or the other? This has been little analyzed and written about. Jerry Fodor has repaired that omission and had done it brilliantly.Collection: Writing
I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.Collection: Writing
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.Collection: Writing
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.Collection: Writing
Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.Collection: Writing
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.Collection: Writing
I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.Collection: Writing
I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.Collection: Writing
It was always going to be a blues, soul, and rock-'n'-roll thing, because those are our ingredients. That's where we come from, and that's how we write. I think it has just become larger. We've just been able to use our imaginations so much more.Collection: Writing