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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.
I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.
I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.
If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.
We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.
I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.
If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.