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Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.
I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.
I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
Which isn't the truth, you understand. At least you understand that in your head...but not always in your heart.
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.