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I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.Collection: Writing
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.Collection: Writing
In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.Collection: Writing
One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing.Collection: Writing
You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.Collection: Writing
Compassion is the belief that things might improve, and even when there's little, if anything, to sustain and engender that belief. It's the place from which I write, and the more troubled the circumstances, the deeper into the hearts and psyches of these characters I'm likely to go, opening every door in that dark hallway, and walking all the way in.Collection: Writing
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.Collection: Writing
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories. I sometimes wonder if the pendulum will swing all the way back to where I began. As T.S. Eliot says, "In my end is my beginning," but for now I'm staying put, sitting tight, and loving the short story form way too much to leave it quite yet.Collection: Writing
The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.Collection: Writing
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.Collection: Writing
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.Collection: Writing
Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.Collection: Writing
There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.Collection: Writing
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.Collection: Writing
I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts.Collection: Writing
I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.Collection: Writing
I write with my past, about the future, for the presentCollection: Writing
I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.Collection: Writing
I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.Collection: Writing
[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.Collection: Writing
Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.Collection: Writing
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.Collection: Writing
Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.Collection: Writing
Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.Collection: Writing
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.Collection: Writing
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.Collection: Writing
My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.Collection: Writing
If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.Collection: Writing
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.Collection: Writing
I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.Collection: Writing
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.Collection: Writing
I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!Collection: Writing
As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."Collection: Writing
Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.Collection: Writing
Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.Collection: Writing
Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.Collection: Writing
People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.Collection: Writing
I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.Collection: Writing
I was so fortunate to get the opportunity to be a writers' apprentice on A Different World. It was my favorite show. So to go from watching Dwayne and Whitley to writing for Dwayne and Whitley was incredible.Collection: Writing
More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.Collection: Writing
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.Collection: Writing
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.Collection: Writing
Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me.Collection: Writing
Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.Collection: Writing
I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.Collection: Writing
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!Collection: Writing
Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.Collection: Writing
The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.Collection: Writing
Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.Collection: Writing