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One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.Collection: Writing
I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.Collection: Writing
Write what you’re scared about.Collection: Writing
I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.Collection: Writing
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.Collection: Writing
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.Collection: Writing
I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.Collection: Writing
Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.Collection: Writing
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy.Collection: Writing
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.Collection: Writing
I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it.Collection: Writing
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.Collection: Writing
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.Collection: Writing
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.Collection: Writing
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'Collection: Writing
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.Collection: Writing
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.Collection: Writing
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about six hours - considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write.Collection: Writing
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.Collection: Writing
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.Collection: Writing
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.Collection: Writing
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.Collection: Writing
I never listen to music when I'm writing.Collection: Writing
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.Collection: Writing
You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.Collection: Writing
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.Collection: Writing
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.Collection: Writing
Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.Collection: Writing
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.Collection: Writing
I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'"Collection: Writing
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.Collection: Writing
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.Collection: Writing
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.Collection: Writing
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.Collection: Writing
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my proseCollection: Writing
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.Collection: Writing
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.Collection: Writing
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.Collection: Writing
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.Collection: Writing
When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.Collection: Writing
I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.Collection: Writing
Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.Collection: Writing
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.Collection: Writing
I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.Collection: Writing
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.Collection: Writing
So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.Collection: Writing
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.Collection: Writing
Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.Collection: Writing
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.Collection: Writing