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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.
I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there
If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.
A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.
I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.