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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.
Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?
For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.
I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.
Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.
I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers
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writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.