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I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.
I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.
One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a Sicily that was already lost by the time Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was writing.
I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
When I got my first email from a record label, I decided I didn't want to go in with just one song, so I sat down and kept on writing.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and put in your story.
I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.
A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.
I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.
When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.
I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.
It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.
When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.
I've always loved the writing of Aaron Sorkin. He cleverly intersperses big issues alongside personal relationships.
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.
When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold it all sacred.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.
'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing. Choosing a project is an organic process where I'm taken in by the character and storyline, not the genre, whether fantasy or gritty and raw.
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.
So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.
Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.
When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed - but very good at writing emotional songs.
I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.
I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.
I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.
In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.
I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at least one, and trying to follow the business as much as I can. I keep on top of all the entertainment business news.
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.
Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
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