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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.
For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.
When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.
I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.
I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.
When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.
I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.