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I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.
Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.
To be honest with you, I dont male-bash. I dont believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.
In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.
I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.
Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.
When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.
More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.