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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.
The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.
I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.
This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.
I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.
There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally.
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.
There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.