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I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.Collection: Writing
For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.Collection: Writing
There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.Collection: Writing
I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.Collection: Writing
When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.Collection: Writing
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.Collection: Writing
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.Collection: Writing
If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.Collection: Writing
Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.Collection: Writing
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.Collection: Writing
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.Collection: Writing
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.Collection: Writing
It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.Collection: Writing
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.Collection: Writing
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.Collection: Writing
Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.Collection: Writing
Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.Collection: Writing
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things newCollection: Writing
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.Collection: Writing
This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches.Collection: Writing
About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on tons of digging. But the vital importance of actually traveling to the settings of a novel really hit me. And it's not just the setting details, not just the visuals and other sensory data, that will pop. You'll find surprising clues that swerve your story in whole new, deeper, surprising, more organic ways.Collection: Writing
The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.Collection: Writing
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.Collection: Writing
I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.Collection: Writing
My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarrassed about the maid picking it up, wondering what in the hell I'm talking about.Collection: Writing
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.Collection: Writing
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.Collection: Writing
Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.Collection: Writing
Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. Im very lucky to be a part of it.Collection: Writing
I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older I've gotten, the more collaborations I've gotten. I really enjoy working with other people to create different styles of music, because I really do listen to everything, and I enjoy every kind of music. I think some of the best stuff comes from working with people who have different perspectives on the same thing.Collection: Writing
I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.Collection: Writing
I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of making my fans happy with the music that I write and record and, of course, I want to branch out and I want to have more fans, so I try to get interviews and I try to talk to different outlets and I try to get my music everywhere it can be.Collection: Writing
There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.Collection: Writing
The God we worship writes his name upon our faces.Collection: Writing
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.Collection: Writing
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.Collection: Writing
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.Collection: Writing
I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.Collection: Writing
In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.Collection: Writing
I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.Collection: Writing
When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.Collection: Writing
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable and will engage the reader's interest, go for it. Make sure you have something unique to offer. I enjoy the work of writers who give you something you won't find anywhere else.Collection: Writing
To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.Collection: Writing
I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.Collection: Writing
I think you have to write what you want to watch.Collection: Writing
In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.Collection: Writing
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.Collection: Writing
To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.Collection: Writing
I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable to me. It's also still a largely uncharted medium with enormous unrealized potential. I like finding new ways to communicate an idea or a feeling, ways that can't be duplicated in other media, so I take great pleasure in the invention and exploration that comics necessitates.Collection: Writing