Writing Quotes - Page 202

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

Write down your barrier thoughts, and then consider ways to reinterpret the situation. In the process, ask yourself questions like... What else could this situation or experience mean? Can anything good come from it? Does it present any opportunities for me? What lessons can I learn and apply to the future? Did I develop any strengths as a result?

I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn’t. Blow something up. But well.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.

The Intuitive one can read where the Master doesn't write and listen where the Master doesn't talk.