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One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.Collection: Writing
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.Collection: Writing
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoesCollection: Writing
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.Collection: Writing
I feel like I know how to write plot.Collection: Writing
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.Collection: Writing
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.Collection: Writing
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.Collection: Writing
Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.Collection: Writing
When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.Collection: Writing
You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.Collection: Writing
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.Collection: Writing
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?Collection: Writing
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.Collection: Writing
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.Collection: Writing
I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.Collection: Writing
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.Collection: Writing
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.Collection: Writing
Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.Collection: Writing
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.Collection: Writing
In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.Collection: Writing
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.Collection: Writing
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.Collection: Writing
I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.Collection: Writing
Movie is an industry without job security. As soon as a job is done, you have to find a job. But I think doing different stuff makes you better at other stuff: Acting makes you better at stand-up, which makes you better at writing.Collection: Writing
Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy.Collection: Writing
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.Collection: Writing
Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.Collection: Writing
Never throw up on an editor.Collection: Writing
Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper.Collection: Writing
It helps to read the sentence aloud.Collection: Writing
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.Collection: Writing
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.Collection: Writing
People going into a business have to have a plan. It's helpful to write it out, even if you're the only one there to see it and execute it. It's your bible. Stick to it, unless things happen in the market that cause you to change your plan. I do that myself.Collection: Writing
Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.Collection: Writing
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.Collection: Writing
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.Collection: Writing
I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.Collection: Writing
I write romance because I love to read romance.Collection: Writing
I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill.Collection: Writing
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.Collection: Writing
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.Collection: Writing
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.Collection: Writing
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.Collection: Writing
A writer writes what other people only think.Collection: Writing
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.Collection: Writing
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.Collection: Writing
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.Collection: Writing