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Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.
I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.
When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.
I like sex writing that makes me think, makes me cringe, makes me angry, makes me look at it in a new way.
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.