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Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them... just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you’ve done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them (Writing Quotes)
Do we really need school? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don’t hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest (Writing Quotes)
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it (Writing Quotes)
I’ve always known that the best part of writing occurs before you’ve picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it’s only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don’t stop until you’ve narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you’ve made is not nearly as glorious as what you’ve thrown away (Writing Quotes)
It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size (Writing Quotes)
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness (Writing Quotes)
The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don’t want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built (Writing Quotes)
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world (Writing Quotes)
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship (Writing Quotes)
Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow (Writing Quotes)
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically (Writing Quotes)
When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women’s work of needle and distaff (Writing Quotes)
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease (Writing Quotes)
The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world (Writing Quotes)
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible (Writing Quotes)
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up (Writing Quotes)
In writing... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together (Writing Quotes)
I’m removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That’s why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I’d much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever (Writing Quotes)
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes (Writing Quotes)
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak (Writing Quotes)
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real (Writing Quotes)
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right (Writing Quotes)
Nothing beats novel writing because it’s complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control (Writing Quotes)
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land (Writing Quotes)
Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win (Writing Quotes)
It isn’t that inspiration doesn’t exist, but it comes only with writing (Writing Quotes)
I’m sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I’ve never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them (Writing Quotes)
When I first started writing plays I couldn’t write good dialogue because I didn’t respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking (Writing Quotes)
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief and most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women (Writing Quotes)
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good (Writing Quotes)