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Writing Quotes

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease Picture Quote #1

As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker’s feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream Picture Quote #1

I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points... that could play into someone else’s life in a larger way Picture Quote #1

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie Picture Quote #1

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought Picture Quote #1

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being Picture Quote #1

You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these obstacles is to write your way through them. And writing always works Picture Quote #1

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I’m writing. It’s kind of method songwriting, where you’re the actor in the song Picture Quote #1

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn’t know I knew Picture Quote #1

You’re letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you’re creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we’re very lucky that we’re quite close. To us, it’s almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It’s really really exciting Picture Quote #1

Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you’re feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that’s exactly the idea that you should do Picture Quote #1

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If you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one Picture Quote #1

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control Picture Quote #1

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing Picture Quote #1

You should always have 2 books... the one you’re reading and the one you’re writing Picture Quote #1

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed Picture Quote #1

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases Picture Quote #1

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When you’re writing you’re constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you’ll never get anything done. There’s enough inner strife Picture Quote #1

When I’m stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I’m eating a sandwich, it’s an unsettled sandwich. If I’m in the shower, it’s an incorrect shower. It’s profoundly uncomfortable. But it’s what keeps me pushing Picture Quote #1

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It’s pretty much one hundred percent caffeine Picture Quote #1

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing Picture Quote #1

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer’s life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay Picture Quote #1

Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor.I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice Picture Quote #1

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When writing screenplays, it’s a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn’t appear on the screen Picture Quote #1

Seriously, I don’t consider myself a writer. I don’t think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it Picture Quote #1

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story Picture Quote #1

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you’ve gathered Picture Quote #1

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise Picture Quote #1

Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms Picture Quote #1

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Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease (Writing Quotes) As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker’s feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream (Writing Quotes) I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points... that could play into someone else’s life in a larger way (Writing Quotes) One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie (Writing Quotes) People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought (Writing Quotes) An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages (Writing Quotes) I don’t think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being (Writing Quotes) You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these obstacles is to write your way through them. And writing always works (Writing Quotes) I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I’m writing. It’s kind of method songwriting, where you’re the actor in the song (Writing Quotes) During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn’t know I knew (Writing Quotes) You’re letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you’re creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we’re very lucky that we’re quite close. To us, it’s almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It’s really really exciting (Writing Quotes) Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you’re feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that’s exactly the idea that you should do (Writing Quotes) If you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one (Writing Quotes) Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control (Writing Quotes) Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing (Writing Quotes) You should always have 2 books... the one you’re reading and the one you’re writing (Writing Quotes) All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed (Writing Quotes) The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases (Writing Quotes) When you’re writing you’re constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you’ll never get anything done. There’s enough inner strife (Writing Quotes) When I’m stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I’m eating a sandwich, it’s an unsettled sandwich. If I’m in the shower, it’s an incorrect shower. It’s profoundly uncomfortable. But it’s what keeps me pushing (Writing Quotes) People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It’s pretty much one hundred percent caffeine (Writing Quotes) I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing (Writing Quotes) Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer’s life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay (Writing Quotes) Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor.I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice (Writing Quotes) When writing screenplays, it’s a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn’t appear on the screen (Writing Quotes) Seriously, I don’t consider myself a writer. I don’t think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it (Writing Quotes) Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story (Writing Quotes) Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you’ve gathered (Writing Quotes) Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise (Writing Quotes) Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms (Writing Quotes)

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