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A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.
I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.
They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.
But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.
Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.
There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.
There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.
I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.
When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.