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Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.
Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.
In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.
I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.
Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.
Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.
Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.
When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.
Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.
One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'
Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.
While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.