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Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.Collection: Writing
I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.Collection: Writing
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!Collection: Writing
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.Collection: Writing
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.Collection: Writing
There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.Collection: Writing
As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the writing, at the end of the day, for me. I don't care if it's a two-line cameo or the lead of the thing, as long as the project has some weight behind the writing and it's interesting and I think people will enjoy it.Collection: Writing
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.Collection: Writing
The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.Collection: Writing
When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.Collection: Writing
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.Collection: Writing
What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.Collection: Writing
Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.Collection: Writing
A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.Collection: Writing
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.Collection: Writing
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.Collection: Writing
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line between neologism and hype? What's the language of the global village? How can we keep pace with technology without getting bogged down in buzzwords? Is it possible to write about machines without losing a sense of humanity and poetry?Collection: Writing
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.Collection: Writing
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'Collection: Writing
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.Collection: Writing
Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'Collection: Writing
All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.Collection: Writing
To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.Collection: Writing
The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”Collection: Writing
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.Collection: Writing
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.Collection: Writing
The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.Collection: Writing
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.Collection: Writing
Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.Collection: Writing
Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.Collection: Writing
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.Collection: Writing
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.Collection: Writing
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.Collection: Writing
I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.Collection: Writing
The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.Collection: Writing
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.Collection: Writing
What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.Collection: Writing
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.Collection: Writing
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.Collection: Writing
At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.Collection: Writing
As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.Collection: Writing
I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.Collection: Writing
Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.Collection: Writing
I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.Collection: Writing
I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.Collection: Writing
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.Collection: Writing
If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.Collection: Writing
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.Collection: Writing
Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.Collection: Writing