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I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.
In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.
If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.
I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.
It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.
Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.
Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.
Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.
Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one big book, I might forget some of them.
But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.
My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and - this is the tricky part - remembering.
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.
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