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All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.Collection: Writing
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.Collection: Writing
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.Collection: Writing
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.Collection: Writing
My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the protagonist of an epic novel, with the outcome predetermined and chapter after chapter of edifying, traumatic, and exhilarating events to be suffered through. Since the end is known in advance, one must try to experience as much as possible in the brief time allotted. Writing is a way of ensuring that you pay enough attention along the way to understand what you see.Collection: Writing
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.Collection: Writing
On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.Collection: Writing
If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.Collection: Writing
The call to write does not respect background or experience.Collection: Writing
Literary theories will not make a writer write.Collection: Writing
The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.Collection: Writing
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.Collection: Writing
When you're doing an animated series, you tend to pitch storyboards. You write a script and then you draw a comic version of that script and put it up on big boards, and then you pitch it to a big room of executives and writers.Collection: Writing
Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That's where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it's a productive time, not a sleepy time.Collection: Writing
My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.Collection: Writing
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.Collection: Writing
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.Collection: Writing
Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.Collection: Writing
I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure that other guys could do it a lot better. I couldn't put my heart into it.Collection: Writing
The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.Collection: Writing
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.Collection: Writing
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.Collection: Writing
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.Collection: Writing
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.Collection: Writing
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.Collection: Writing
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.Collection: Writing
It's a privilege to be able to have an idea and go into a group of executives and say, "I really want to write about this, and I really am interested in this," and for them to say, "Yes," and give you the money to make it.Collection: Writing
I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.Collection: Writing
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.Collection: Writing
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.Collection: Writing
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.Collection: Writing
When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.Collection: Writing
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.Collection: Writing
I think when you write a script, you can't help but pick up on what is happening in the press at that time and what's going on in the newspapers, so you reflect on that and you feed it into your stories in some way.Collection: Writing
I think writing is one of the toughest things.Collection: Writing
I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.Collection: Writing
How can you write if you can't cry?Collection: Writing
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the goodCollection: Writing
What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.Collection: Writing
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.Collection: Writing
I can write better than anyone who can write faster.Collection: Writing
If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.Collection: Writing
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?Collection: Writing
I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that I'm done and with efforts supporting it throughout this process, I'm armed and ready to go with some things that I'm really passionate about.Collection: Writing
I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.Collection: Writing
I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.Collection: Writing
Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.Collection: Writing
I wrote some weird magical realism stories that are probably on some hard drive somewhere, and if I ever uncover that hard drive, I'll burn it. I tried to do a little bit of writing while I was in Iraq, but it wasn't the really greatest space for creative production.Collection: Writing
Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came back from Iraq and said, "We need to have a conversation, I know exactly what it is." It was just this sort of sense of something missing and then trying to write toward what that was, and to solicit from other people a sense of what that might be.Collection: Writing