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Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.Collection: Writing
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.Collection: Writing
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.Collection: Writing
Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.Collection: Writing
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it.Collection: Writing
I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.Collection: Writing
Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then you need to make sure there's some point to what you're saying.Collection: Writing
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.Collection: Writing
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universeCollection: Writing
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.Collection: Writing
You don't write. You get out of the way.Collection: Writing
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.Collection: Writing
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.Collection: Writing
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.Collection: Writing
Writing humor is not something every single person can do.Collection: Writing
I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.Collection: Writing
Anything works, as long as you write it properly.Collection: Writing
Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.Collection: Writing
I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.Collection: Writing
I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.Collection: Writing
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.Collection: Writing
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.Collection: Writing
I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.Collection: Writing
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.Collection: Writing
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.Collection: Writing
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with eyes and heart wide open. Through writing we declare a personal identity amid faceless anonymity. We find purpose and beauty and meaning even when the rational mind argues that none of these exist. Writing therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?Collection: Writing
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.Collection: Writing
I write only because I cannot stop.Collection: Writing
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death.Collection: Writing
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.Collection: Writing
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.Collection: Writing
I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I don't like the physical side of getting older and I don't like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I'd take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever.Collection: Writing
Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.Collection: Writing
Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.Collection: Writing
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.Collection: Writing
If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboonCollection: Writing
Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.Collection: Writing
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.Collection: Writing
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.Collection: Writing
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.Collection: Writing
Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.Collection: Writing
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.Collection: Writing
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.Collection: Writing
Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.Collection: Writing
Nature never writes a blind hand.Collection: Writing
If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing.Collection: Writing
If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.Collection: Writing
If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.Collection: Writing