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Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.
When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something that was done Off-Off Broadway in a theater. It was called 'What Else Is There?' and it was four or five people playing missiles in a silo waiting to take off.
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.
High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling system. And opinions? Well, I've yet to meet people without opinions.
When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.
'Firepower' is the eighteenth full-length studio album for Judas Priest. That's a lot of metal songs over the decades, and the writing process is always the same, really.
Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.
I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap.
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.
I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'
Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.
There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.
I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.
When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.
I did my degree in journalism, and I then went on to being a games journalist, reviewing and previewing games and writing about the industry, visiting and interviewing developers.
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War when black voices were muted and only allowed particular channels.
I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.
I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.
The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'
Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane O'Connor and Jon Scieszka.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there from the get-go, from the start of writing.
Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
During the week,I'm really focused on writing and output. Sunday is a day when I really try not to write at all.
When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But when push comes to shove, I'll always take the writing.
I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.
Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.
If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.
One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.
I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.
I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially. I don't need that money. I have a career.
My favourite authors are Jeffrey Archer, for his story telling skills; John Grisham, for the completely new genre he created; and James Patterson, for the way he created a new business model out of writing.
Given my extensive background in foreign banks, writing about them came quite naturally to me. Thankfully, God has been kind to me.
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.
My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.
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