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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.
The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.
For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.
Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.