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I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.
My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.
Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.
Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.
When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.