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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie Picture Quote #1

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing... Not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer Picture Quote #1

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors Picture Quote #1

The ideas he put forward, familiar enough when clothed in their usual phraseology, emerged in his writing in a state of undress that had them look exciting and almost new, just as a woman whom one has known for years is always something of a surprise without her clothes on Picture Quote #1

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the book lover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest Picture Quote #1

Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one Picture Quote #1

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A writer's desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing Picture Quote #1

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out Picture Quote #1

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer Picture Quote #1

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing Picture Quote #1

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame Picture Quote #1

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost Picture Quote #1

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I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written Picture Quote #1

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way Picture Quote #1

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write Picture Quote #1

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time Picture Quote #1

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know Picture Quote #1

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together Picture Quote #1

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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain Picture Quote #1

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away Picture Quote #1

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort Picture Quote #1

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male Picture Quote #1

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth Picture Quote #1

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music Picture Quote #1

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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning Picture Quote #1

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially Picture Quote #1

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing Picture Quote #1

Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story Picture Quote #1

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor Picture Quote #1

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it Picture Quote #1

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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie (Writing Quotes) I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing... Not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer (Writing Quotes) So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors (Writing Quotes) The ideas he put forward, familiar enough when clothed in their usual phraseology, emerged in his writing in a state of undress that had them look exciting and almost new, just as a woman whom one has known for years is always something of a surprise without her clothes on (Writing Quotes) There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the book lover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest (Writing Quotes) Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one (Writing Quotes) A writer's desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing (Writing Quotes) When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out (Writing Quotes) I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer (Writing Quotes) I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing (Writing Quotes) I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame (Writing Quotes) Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost (Writing Quotes) I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written (Writing Quotes) Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way (Writing Quotes) I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write (Writing Quotes) Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time (Writing Quotes) No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know (Writing Quotes) The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together (Writing Quotes) Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain (Writing Quotes) The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away (Writing Quotes) I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort (Writing Quotes) A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male (Writing Quotes) Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth (Writing Quotes) I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music (Writing Quotes) The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning (Writing Quotes) Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially (Writing Quotes) In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing (Writing Quotes) Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story (Writing Quotes) I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor (Writing Quotes) You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it (Writing Quotes)

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