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Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.
One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.
I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.
If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.
All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.