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“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”

Writing Kind Two Stories Found Dark Absurd Realistic Short Story Hyper Funny Story

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.”

Writing Years Wells Country Hard Together Guy Found Musician Incredibles Producers This Guy Really Cool Franklin

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.”

“The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.”

Writing Doe Found Effects

Book:The Politics of History

Source: The Politics of History

“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Enough Helping Found Hours Dinner Productive Enough Time Sneaking Up

Author:Michael Crichton

“All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.”

Men Writing Long Said Stories Courses Found Sleep Clear Missing Changed Drug Details One Man Links Drs Cabinets Jekyll

Book:The complete short stories

Source: The complete short stories

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

Men Writing Firsts Young Girl Found Sex Difficult Events Scene Horse Satisfied Get Up Attractive Young Man Playwright

Author:Peter Shaffer

“I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.”

Writing Found My Own Powerful Sitting Praise Tables Finished Coffee Over It Justification Twins Weeping Colony Puzzling Coetzee

Author:Amy Waldman

“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I would tell them simply this; I would ask them to tamper as little as they can with their own work. I do not think tinkering does any good. The moment comes when one has found out what one can do - when one has found one's natural voice, one's rhythm. Then I do not think that slight emendations should prove useful.”

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Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”

Writing Stories Found Sides Impossible Deeper Impression

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.”

Writing Found House Answers Office Married Posts Helpful Dishes Email Blogs

Author:Randall Munroe

“I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.”

Writing Found Paint Rhythm Messy

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.”

Way Writing Kind Has Beens Ideas Different Found Common Successful Succeed Elements Determination Method Persistence Overwhelming Different Kinds Determination To Succeed

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.”

Writing Book Done Whole Stories Jobs Found Winning Terrible New Job

Author:Anne Enright

“Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.”

Writing Kind May Sometimes Found Conversation Expected All Kinds Eloquence

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.”

Way Writing Book Sometimes Found Majors Exciting Editing Manuscripts Revision Fresh Start Shredding

Author:William Manchester

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Writing Wells Long Real Hard Found Space Novel Novelists Things To Do Desperate Symptoms Discouraged Hard Things

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.”

Want Writing Play Guy Found Stuff Hollywood Being The Best Caucasian

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For I've found that correspondence Means that if you want to get 'em, You must write 'em!”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Mean I Can Found Letters Ems Items Correspondence

Author:Richard Armour

“You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.”

Writing Kind Children Real Stories Film Found Nice Short Story Documentaries Format Short Love Short Films Dyslexic Writing Short Writing Short Stories

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think directors like, and I love making movies, so I found something that I'm good at and I'm really happy doing.”

Thinking Writing Stories Found Directors Really Happy Love Making

Author:John Orloff

“Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.”

Writing Believe Two Hard Political Found Numbers Poet Goes On Absurd Tendencies Repeats Logical Ads Construction Refuge Novelty Romanticism Hard To Believe Recurring Surrealist Decimals

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.”

World Writing Book Joy Found Too Much Scene Claims Infinite Affair Quitting Despite Solitary Solitary Life

Book:Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

“I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.”

Writing I Can Found Fiction Science Fiction Visuals Lazy Lacking Shorthand Specificity

Author:William Gibson

“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”

Ifs Writing Wells Stills I Can Night Found Dark Plans One Thing Tomorrow Summer Window Empty Paid Dues Golden Midst Lit Stormy Inns Writing Every Day Stormy Nights

Author:Tanith Lee

“I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.”

Writing Age Found Language Sky Forests Paradise Maps Apology Shelley Wordsworth

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.”

Knows Writing Found Shocked

Author:Carl Reiner

“Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and more than an expression of its physical origin. The real significance of wine as the nexus of just about everything became clearer to me when I started writing about it. The more I read, the more I traveled, and the more questions I asked, the further I was pulled into the realms of history and economics, politics, literature, food, community, and all else that affects the way we live. Wine, I found, draws on everything and leads everywhere.”

Way Writing Long Real Found Literature Community Expression Draws Economics Trade Wine Realms Significance Long Ago Traveled Apprenticeship Nexus

Book:A Carafe of Red

Source: A Carafe of Red

“I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.”

People Ifs Writing Long Ideas Found Communication Six Increase Posts Decrease Queues Unread Books

Author:Seth Godin

“An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.”

“Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.”

Writing Book Self Use Values Found Highest My Time Publishing Promoting

Author:Barry Eisler

“Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it names, no ruins, no coins, no letters or documents or monuments, nothing in writing. Not even one of the rivers or mountains or any of the topography it mentions has ever been identified.”

Writing Book Found Names Cities Support Pieces Mountain Evidence Rivers Letters Ruins Documents Coins Monument One Piece Large Cities Topography

Author:Dave Hunt

“Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.”

Writing Mind Humans May Reason Suffering Found Virtue Produce Genius Evidence Performances Curiosity Appearance Folly Human Mind Manifest Tempted Repent Infirmity Inconsistency

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“General irregularities are known in time to remedy themselves. By the constitution of ancient Egypt, the priesthood was continually increasing, till at length there was no people beside themselves; the establishment was then dissolved, and the number of priests was reduced and limited. Thus among us, writers will, perhaps, be multiplied, till no readers will be found, and then the ambition of writing must necessarily cease.”

People Writing Found Numbers Known Reader Ambition Constitution Ancient Cease Priests Length Establishment Remedy Egypt Priesthood Ancient Egypt Irregularity

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.”

Ifs Want Writing Wells Book Found Language Want Me

Author:Alan Bennett

“I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.”

Writing Choices Found Poor Subjects Autobiography Poor Choices

Book:Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

“As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.”

Writing Found Serious Grew Skills Pursued Thirteen Knack Rhyming

Author:LeCrae

“A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Has Beens Seems Able Lasts Found Natural Simple Effort Expression Ought Good Authors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.”

Writing Mind Persons Seems Found Particular Circumstances Species Worthy Conform Biographies Parallels Cultivation Kindred

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.”

“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.”

“I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.”

Writing Ends Found Written Painful

Book:Works

Source: Works

“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.”

Ifs Knows Writing Young Found Wonder

Book:Changes: A Love Story

Source: Changes: A Love Story

“People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.”

People Giving Writing Littles Order Found Bits Little Bit

Author:Dorothy Allison

“I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.”

Thinking Writing Book Faces Used Found Sound Voice Pages Uncomfortable Annoying Appearing Fetters Found Love

Author:Nora Waln

“Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.”

Thinking Way Writing Book Found Successful Way Of Thinking Writing A Book

Author:Ruth Ozeki

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