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No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at itCollection: Writing
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.Collection: Writing
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.Collection: Writing
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.Collection: Writing
writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.Collection: Writing
You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem that you are playing with fire a little bit by choosing someone that obviously existed.Collection: Writing
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels.Collection: Writing
I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one which struck me when someone said "have you ever heard of Kester Berwick?"Collection: Writing
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.Collection: Writing
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.Collection: Writing
I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!Collection: Writing
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.Collection: Writing
On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.Collection: Writing
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.Collection: Writing
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.Collection: Writing
Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.Collection: Writing
If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.Collection: Writing
The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?Collection: Writing
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.Collection: Writing
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.Collection: Writing
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.Collection: Writing
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.Collection: Writing
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.Collection: Writing
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.Collection: Writing
Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.Collection: Writing
When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what the memoir form demands. I also had to figure out how much of the truth do I tell, how do I make the truth as balanced as I possibly can? How do I make these people as complicated and as human and as unique and as multifaceted as I possibly can? For me, that was the way I attempted to counteract some of that criticism.Collection: Writing
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.Collection: Writing
I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.Collection: Writing
I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.Collection: Writing
Doing an interview you're going to have certain things you want to get at, but you're better off if you play to people's strengths a bit. You're also assessing how it's going and adjusting as needed. Does your subject seem up for it, willing to do it, and is he or she enjoying the interview? Or do they need to be coaxed, or reassured, or whatever they might need from you? Like writing, interviewing is a process that you keep learning, and you're always trying to get better and better.Collection: Writing
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.Collection: Writing
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.Collection: Writing
The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.Collection: Writing
For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory.Collection: Writing
As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.Collection: Writing
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, that a playwright is more of a craftsman than an artist of the big novel.Collection: Writing
Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.Collection: Writing
We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.Collection: Writing
Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.Collection: Writing
Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.Collection: Writing
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.Collection: Writing
In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.Collection: Writing
Caesar is not above the grammarians.Collection: Writing
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.Collection: Writing
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.Collection: Writing
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.Collection: Writing
It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.Collection: Writing
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.Collection: Writing