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My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.Collection: Writing
Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.Collection: Writing
A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.Collection: Writing
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.Collection: Writing
Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.Collection: Writing
I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.Collection: Writing
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.Collection: Writing
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.Collection: Writing
I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.Collection: Writing
The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.Collection: Writing
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.Collection: Writing
Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.Collection: Writing
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.Collection: Writing
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.Collection: Writing
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.Collection: Writing
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.Collection: Writing
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?" "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.Collection: Writing
I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.Collection: Writing
I love Crews, but had been writing a long time before I knew of him. I learned of him because a friend thought we were similar. The reason we are is we were both heavily influenced by Flannery O'Conner. She was wonderful.Collection: Writing
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.Collection: Writing
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.Collection: Writing
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.Collection: Writing
A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.Collection: Writing
Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.Collection: Writing
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and if they publish it, maybe no one will read it. That is the hard truth, that is what it means to be a writer.Collection: Writing
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.Collection: Writing
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.Collection: Writing
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.Collection: Writing
Write about the thing that frightens you most.Collection: Writing
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.Collection: Writing
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.Collection: Writing
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.Collection: Writing
Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.Collection: Writing
I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.Collection: Writing
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.Collection: Writing
Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.Collection: Writing
I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.Collection: Writing
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.Collection: Writing
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.Collection: Writing
When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.Collection: Writing
Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.Collection: Writing
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end upCollection: Writing
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.Collection: Writing
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.Collection: Writing
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.Collection: Writing
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.Collection: Writing
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.Collection: Writing
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.Collection: Writing