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When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'
There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.
For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.
I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."
I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.