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I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directingCollection: Writing
Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.Collection: Writing
We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.Collection: Writing
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.Collection: Writing
Writing. Love is writing.Collection: Writing
At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.Collection: Writing
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.Collection: Writing
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.Collection: Writing
I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.Collection: Writing
I am not a writer except when I write.Collection: Writing
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.Collection: Writing
Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.Collection: Writing
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.Collection: Writing
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.Collection: Writing
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.Collection: Writing
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.Collection: Writing
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.Collection: Writing
Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?Collection: Writing
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.Collection: Writing
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.Collection: Writing
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.Collection: Writing
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.Collection: Writing
The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.Collection: Writing
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.Collection: Writing
My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.Collection: Writing
It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so she's at their mercy, and she's at the mercy of whoever writes her and whoever draws her.Collection: Writing
Write like no one's going to read it !Collection: Writing
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice.Collection: Writing
There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.Collection: Writing
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.Collection: Writing
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.Collection: Writing
Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it -and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way.Collection: Writing
Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.Collection: Writing
Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one.Collection: Writing
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.Collection: Writing
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.Collection: Writing
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.Collection: Writing
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that the thinking particular to poetry is essential to my life. I need to think, to explore, to question, in poetry. Without that feeling, I am, in some ultimate way, lost.Collection: Writing
For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try to form the poem - on a typewriter or on my computer - and, by trial and error, try to find the right shape. I just try to keep forming the poem in different ways until it feels right to me.Collection: Writing
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all we care about is language. At least in the initial stages of the process of writing the poem, though later other things start to come in, and a really good poem usually needs something more than just an interest in the material of language to mean anything to a reader.Collection: Writing
That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to Tomaž Šalamun's famous line, "Every true poet is a monster." Or why Richard Hugo writes that the imagination is a cynic. TCollection: Writing
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.Collection: Writing
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Collection: Writing
We’re happier when the assholes are villains.Collection: Writing
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.Collection: Writing
You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.Collection: Writing
[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.Collection: Writing
[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.Collection: Writing
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.Collection: Writing