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I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.Collection: Writing
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.Collection: Writing
I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!Collection: Writing
Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.Collection: Writing
I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.Collection: Writing
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.Collection: Writing
Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.Collection: Writing
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.Collection: Writing
I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.Collection: Writing
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!Collection: Writing
I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.Collection: Writing
It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.Collection: Writing
The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.Collection: Writing
When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.Collection: Writing
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.Collection: Writing
Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea what the story is going to be about. Sometimes I have a fuzzy vision, or a glimpse of one scene, or a character. But mostly all I have is a random first sentence, and I follow it to see where it might go. For me, writing is the process of discovery, of gradually figuring out what happens in the story and how it ends, that makes writing an interesting process for me.Collection: Writing
A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.Collection: Writing
One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.Collection: Writing
Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The negative things I write about are considered normal here.Collection: Writing
I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.Collection: Writing
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.Collection: Writing
I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.Collection: Writing
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.Collection: Writing
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.Collection: Writing
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.Collection: Writing
I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.Collection: Writing
I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.Collection: Writing
Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.Collection: Writing
I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.Collection: Writing
My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.Collection: Writing
The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.Collection: Writing
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.Collection: Writing
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.Collection: Writing
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.Collection: Writing
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.Collection: Writing
I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."Collection: Writing
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.Collection: Writing
Melodies and ideas are always on my mind and always coming to me. I'm very thankful for that because if I didn't have whatever that is, that craziness, that openness, maybe, I don't think I'd be able to do what I really love to do, which is write great melodies and at least try to write great melodies.Collection: Writing
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.Collection: Writing
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.Collection: Writing
For me Henry Corbin, the way that he writes about certain esoteric matters, is in a phenomenological way that refuses a New Age lens. But at the same time he's very much responsible for a lot of New Age thought, because he was a very syncretic thinker.Collection: Writing
A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map.Collection: Writing
I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.Collection: Writing
I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.Collection: Writing
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.Collection: Writing
To achieve great things requires that we become great people.Collection: Writing
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.Collection: Writing
I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.Collection: Writing
The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the right person, you're constantly judging your writing or what it is that isn't working here or not clicking here, because you have amazing actors coming to read for it, and if something's not clicking, it can't be them because they're amazing actors. You're sort of completely doubting yourself.Collection: Writing