Writing Quotes - Page 604

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

A day without writing was a little death.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.