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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.
Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself
I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.
Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.