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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.
I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.
I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.
I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.
Coming off a show like 'Lost,' there were other offers, but it was difficult to get excited about anything because 'Lost' was such a great piece of writing and such a hit show.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
Ahana does lots of things; that's the problem with her. She is a fashion designer and is also writing some scripts. She doesn't want to do the regular commercial films. So she has decided that only if she really likes something, then she will take it up.
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.
Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.
People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense, and then I spent the next 20 years studying it and writing about it.
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
I did not want to follow Chi Udayashankerji; now Yogaraj Bhat does not want to follow me in writing lyrics.
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I was fairly young and very ambitious. I pitched it to a publisher, who just laughed at me.
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
I would like to write my biography sometime. I love to write. I could write for weeks and weeks, maybe say nothing but just for the writing.
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.
There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.
With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.
When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.
Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway.
I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.
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