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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerouslyCollection: Writing
Writing is a journey into the unknown.Collection: Writing
The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.Collection: Writing
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.Collection: Writing
I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.Collection: Writing
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.Collection: Writing
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.Collection: Writing
I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.Collection: Writing
If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.Collection: Writing
I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main roles. If I like what I see, but they're not exactly right for the role, I'll think well I have this other role that might work for them. Sometimes I will write a role for them because I want to work with them because they're so good.Collection: Writing
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.Collection: Writing
If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.Collection: Writing
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.Collection: Writing
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.Collection: Writing
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.Collection: Writing
I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.Collection: Writing
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.Collection: Writing
Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anythingCollection: Writing
It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.Collection: Writing
The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.Collection: Writing
Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.Collection: Writing
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.Collection: Writing
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.Collection: Writing
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.Collection: Writing
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.Collection: Writing
Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public - the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.Collection: Writing
It is easy to write when you don't know how.Collection: Writing
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.Collection: Writing
I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.Collection: Writing
When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly, you look at this movie which is every scene you wrote, every line of dialogue you wrote and you want to kill yourself the minute you see it. It's like, 'How did I write something so horrible?'Collection: Writing
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.Collection: Writing
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.Collection: Writing
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.Collection: Writing
I'm definitely inspired by music; I feel like I can express a part of myself, a part of my heart and my soul, that I can't express just acting by writing music or singing music. It takes the emotions to another level. I feel really connected to something else, you know.Collection: Writing
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.Collection: Writing
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.Collection: Writing
Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create an authentic voice. Somehow voice seems to be the natural manifestation of all the narrative decisions we've made so far. We discover it more than we fabricate it.Collection: Writing
For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.Collection: Writing
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.Collection: Writing
You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.Collection: Writing
We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.Collection: Writing
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.Collection: Writing
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.Collection: Writing
The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.Collection: Writing
As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs.Collection: Writing
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as well, it's like reinventing the wheel every time. I have no idea what I'm doing writing a novel, and in some ways, it's the only way to do it.Collection: Writing
Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.Collection: Writing
How do I stay confident? I just look at my accomplishments that I've made so far. It's a very conceited thing to say, of course, but I just look at everything I've done and all the fans that write letters to me. Sometimes I even look at the good YouTube comments and really pay attentions to them. I've inspired a lot of kids, and it's not every day you get to hear about that when you have this kind of career.Collection: Writing
When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.Collection: Writing