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I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.
If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.
I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.
I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.
It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.
When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.
I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.