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Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.
I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.
If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.
It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.
I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.