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The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.
I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.
Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.
First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.
Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.
I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.
It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.
Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.
It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.