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I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.Collection: Writing
The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.Collection: Writing
No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.Collection: Writing
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeologyCollection: Writing
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.Collection: Writing
Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It MyselfCollection: Writing
I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.Collection: Writing
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?Collection: Writing
I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.Collection: Writing
If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.Collection: Writing
The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because the industry requires the professional to put writing on hold not just for a day or two, or a week, but for years.Collection: Writing
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.Collection: Writing
The better the writing, the easier it gets.Collection: Writing
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.Collection: Writing
Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.Collection: Writing
I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.Collection: Writing
I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life."Collection: Writing
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.Collection: Writing
But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.Collection: Writing
Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.Collection: Writing
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.Collection: Writing
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.Collection: Writing
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I’ve loved writing my whole life. When I put them together it was probably in my early 20s, where I put words to music for the first time.Collection: Writing
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."Collection: Writing
You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.Collection: Writing
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.Collection: Writing
Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.Collection: Writing
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.Collection: Writing
If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.Collection: Writing
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.Collection: Writing
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.Collection: Writing
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.Collection: Writing
As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.Collection: Writing
The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.Collection: Writing
Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same view twice. Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list. Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed. Not going back so that you can fly. Fly.Collection: Writing
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.Collection: Writing
Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.Collection: Writing
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.Collection: Writing
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.Collection: Writing
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.Collection: Writing
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.Collection: Writing
For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.Collection: Writing
Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice.Collection: Writing
It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.Collection: Writing
If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.Collection: Writing
Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.Collection: Writing
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't writeCollection: Writing
When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.Collection: Writing
There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.Collection: Writing