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Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.
We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.
I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.
I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.
I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.
To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.
I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.