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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.
I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.
I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.
I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.
As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.