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I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.
Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.
Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.
Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.
Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world
It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano
Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.
Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy