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Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.
I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.
I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.
Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.
Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.
Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.