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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad - but I was eight, so it's okay.
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.
You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that.
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.
I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.