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The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.
Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think.
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.
I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.
Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.
The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title