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Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.
Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.
Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.
I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.