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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process.
I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to hear.
My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that.
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
I am the queen of hashtags! I love hashtags. I think in hashtags. I wish I could write everything in hashtag.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.
What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.
I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.