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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.