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What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.Collection: Writing
You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.Collection: Writing
Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.Collection: Writing
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.Collection: Writing
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.Collection: Writing
I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.Collection: Writing
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.Collection: Writing
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.Collection: Writing
Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.Collection: Writing
I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.Collection: Writing
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.Collection: Writing
Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.Collection: Writing
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it wellCollection: Writing
I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.Collection: Writing
Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.Collection: Writing
This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].Collection: Writing
If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?Collection: Writing
Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before that, or we should all be plumbers. It must be good to be a plumber. Everyone is happy to see you, and no one reviews your work.Collection: Writing
I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.Collection: Writing
I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.Collection: Writing
When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.Collection: Writing
I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.Collection: Writing
Write the story that only you can write.Collection: Writing
It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And, rare for me, I wrote scenes out of sequence. . . . I didn't understand the play when I wrote it. It was something I'd give in to. It happens to me periodically. I give over and write whatever comes to me and I don't know what it means and then I do. It's thrilling.Collection: Writing
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.Collection: Writing
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.Collection: Writing
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.Collection: Writing
I really don't feel that writing is therapy.Collection: Writing
Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.Collection: Writing
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.Collection: Writing
On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.Collection: Writing
I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when Suha Arafat was launching anti-Semitic tirades against Israel and the Jews.Collection: Writing
I write because I have authority from life to do so.Collection: Writing
I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.Collection: Writing
If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.Collection: Writing
I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.Collection: Writing
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.Collection: Writing
He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.Collection: Writing
I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.Collection: Writing
I've struggled seriously to make movies with very little money, that I write, that I direct, that mean my life to me. The idea that I would offer a part to anyone for any other reason than that he or she was gonna be the best of anyone I could find is so disgusting to me. I don't give my best friends parts unless they deserve them. Ever.Collection: Writing
I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I had to start a movie immediately. It was the only way to avoid becoming overwhelmed by depression. And that meant financing the film myself because there is no such thing as "immediately" in movies that one writes.Collection: Writing
I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.Collection: Writing
I can sometimes gaze out of the window, at the sheep, ponies, grazing deer, and numerous woodland folk. It's a wonderful setting in which to write. I live on a dirt road, miles from anywhere, with no neighbors.Collection: Writing
I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that there is plenty of room for spontaneity. Often the characters will lead the story off in a direction I hadn't originally intended!Collection: Writing
I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.Collection: Writing
A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.Collection: Writing
Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.Collection: Writing
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.Collection: Writing
Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write an editorial. I hope I can write about Trump; he's too major a force not to be written about.Collection: Writing