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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.
there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.
The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.
If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.
I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.