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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.
I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.
Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.
Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.
Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.
The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.
I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.
A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.
I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed
Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?
Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.
You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.
I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.