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“I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Bits Periods Burden

“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.”

Writing Different Stories Periods Relevant Diaries Dictionary Dialect Slang Time Periods Oral History

Author:Ron Rash

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.”

Want Should Writing Years Made Problem Action Boys Roles Watches Hero Periods Action Heroes

Author:James Mangold

“When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.”

People Writing Years Christian Speak Land Periods Jew Eras Centre Autonomous Birthplace

Book:The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

Source: The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

“For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.”

Inspirational Writing Mean Moving Periods Chairs

Author:Peter McWilliams

“I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.”

Writing Enjoy Periods Research Nerd Time Periods

Author:Susan Holloway Scott

“While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.”

Knows Writing Hard School Form Reading Novel Periods Detectives Heirs Writing Poems

Author:Paul Auster

“Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.”

People Ifs Writing Done Example Becoming Periods Clothes Mere Impression Satisfied Excellent Outsiders Location Travel Writing Prague

Author:George Fetherling

“Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.”

Ifs Writing Years Young Three Acting Arms Periods Promise Weight Victim Seven Settling Mature Judged Platforms Unfortunate Rope Seven Years Young Writers Hangman Nooses

Book:Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise

“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Has Beens Names Individual Practice Century Style Objects Periods Pursue Individualism Sole Imitation Conform Concealed Eccentricity Pseudo Individual Style

Author:Laura Riding

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.”

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.”

Way Want Writing Doe Play Use Sound Differences Pieces Wonderful Students Periods Composer Wonderful Things Indication Duration Punctuation Playwriting

Author:Edward Albee

“Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.”

Ifs Way Writing Littles Stories Hands Seems Waiting Hours Common Enemy Week Periods Tables Submit Procrastination Desks Avoiding Chained

Book:This Year You Write Your Novel

Source: This Year You Write Your Novel

“I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.”

Thinking Writing Mean Character Stories Fiction Fantasy Materials Periods Science Fiction Developing Novelists Science Fiction And Fantasy

Author:Roger Zelazny

“I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.”

Writing Firsts Long I Can Remember Fall Lost Walks Forget Dog Periods Exciting Get Real Obsessive Laundry Screwed Up Long Periods Of Time Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Adam Rapp

“I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.”

Ifs Want Writing Book Character Jobs Novel Media Periods Horror Sells Suspense Ties Bells Thrillers Using Me Tacos Taco Bell Suspense Novels

Author:Bentley Little

“Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.”

Ifs Men Writing May Might Happens Speak Grows Sound Reader Periods Understood Advantage Notion Sentences Every Man Ease Consideration Sentiments Elegant Transfers

Book:The Idler: With Additional Essays

Source: The Idler: With Additional Essays

“Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by memoirs of the sons of literature. They are entangled by contracts which they know not how to fulfill, and obliged to write on subjects which they do not understand. Every publication is a new period of time, from which some increase or declension of fame is to be reckoned. The gradations of a hero's life are from battle to battle, and of an author's from book to book.”

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

“The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.”

Ifs Writing Creative Crazy Periods Flow Hardest Juice Creative Juices

Author:Ice Cube

“I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.”

Thinking Writing Trying Three Process Creative Months Periods Pure Messages Down And Worthy Creative Process Composition Three Months

Author:John Zorn

“The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Trying Enough Certain Months Periods Six Pages Six Months

Author:Judith Krantz

“Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.”

Writing Remember Lines Greater Style Periods Judgment Weight Harmony Musical Proof Scripture Prose Melody Verses

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.”

Writing Trying Periods Hollywood Los Angeles Bugs Truck Flu Screenplays Plumber

Book:It's Always Something

Source: It's Always Something

“I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting.”

Writing Littles Play Dream Kids Age School Acting Periods

Author:George Ogilvie

“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.”

Ifs Needs Writing Kind Long Spiritual Turns Prayer Silence Study Teacher Tvs Periods Solitude Deeper Turn-on Spiritual Teachers Journaling

Author:Richard Rohr

“Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.”

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Reading Audience Written Periods

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.”

Writing Periods Terrible Painful Breathing

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.”

Writing Long Country Character Actors Periods Compass Grandeur Prominent

Book:The life of George Washington

Source: The life of George Washington

“This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.”

“You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.”

Ifs Writing Wells May Long Done Moving Order Bits Process Poor Ready Periods Excellent Productive Mediocre

Author:Ray Bradbury

“My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.”

Writing Trying Ideas Hard Individual Pieces Periods Collections Surprising Hyper

Author:George Saunders

“As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.”

People Writing Play Problem Culture Felt Deals Issues Wind Periods Finished Sensitive Abstract Resolve Emphasis Always Believe Embedded

Author:Arthur Miller

“I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.”

People Should Writing Two Life Is Hate Three Periods I Hate Critics Meaningful Reviews I Have Learned Nasty Reviewers Meaningful Work Nasty People

Author:John Grisham

“Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.”

Way Writing Kind Nice Periods Music Is Rewards My Way Depressing Very Nice Save Me Accolades

Author:Randy Houser

“Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.”

Writing Ends Periods Clean Sentences

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.”

Thinking Writing Long Said Periods Capable Long Periods Of Time

Author:Edan Lepucki

“I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Reason Order Reading Periods Love Of Reading

Author:Philippa Gregory

“On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.”

Giving Writing Lasts Actors Chance Periods Give Me Scripts Casts Come Up Rehearsal Give Me A Chance

Author:John Cleese

“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.”

Feels Should Writing Novel Creative Periods Cease Suits Interrupted Dictation

Author:Francois Mauriac

“I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16. And have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.”

Writing Ideas Age Wanted Dark Periods No Idea

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.”

Writing Used Language Lines Numbers Periods Independent Code Fixed Programmers

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.”

Writing I Can Rocks Periods Opera Chamber Listening To Music Absorbing Old And New Chamber Music

Author:Cheryl Mendelson

“Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.”

“I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.”

Thinking Way Writing Shows Together Periods Happenings Advantage Productions Speed Posts Guts Post Production

Author:Will Forte

“A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.”

Writing Mean Two Night Three Goes On Periods Dry

Book:Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

“There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.”

People Writing Years Two Ends Voice Stage Materials Periods I Realized Being True Two Years Entertaining Metamorphosis True To Myself Writing Voice

Author:George Carlin

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