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I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.
People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.
I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.
I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.
I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.
To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.