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I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.
Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good.
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.
Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.