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“I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.”

Writing Stills Use Too Much Mail Surfing Quills

“The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.”

Giving Writing Heart Long Use Age Young Secret Sun Path Sky Advice Wind Blue Trade Paint Forgotten Dust Faithful Realms Shore Once Upon A Time Caress Young Writers

Author:Brian Jacques

“I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.”

Writing Firsts Moments Use Bars Advertising Journalism Load Truck Workshops Chauffeurs Writing Workshop

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.”

Writing Use Acting Careers Roles Vehicle

Author:Danny Strong

“Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?”

Writing Use Available Nouns

Author:William Safire

“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”

Men Should Writing Has Beens Two Book Different Use Able Courses Language Written Century Letters Originals Titles Theme Copies Apes Imitator Use Of Language

Book:Planet of the Apes

Source: Planet of the Apes

“Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.”

Ifs Feels Writing Wells Stories Use Can Do Novel Written Fine Dialogue Necks Short Story You Can Do It Tire Being Positive Dialect Rave

Author:Anne Lamott

“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.”

Giving Writing Trying Reason Use Sound Style Perception Ordinary Sentences Objectives Reason Why Faithful Paragraph Transmit Being Faithful Synonym

Author:Martin Amis

“Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”

Ifs Writing Believe Wells Use Might Energy Opinion Identity Pure Ego Believe In You Willpower

Author:William Zinsser

“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.”

Way Writing Made Use Memories Fiction Happened Needed My Family Meaningful Novelists Mature Writing Fiction

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.”

Writing I Can Different Sometimes Use Brain Paint

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?”

Ifs Writing Use Song Vision Vision Of Life

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”

Way Writing Trying Use Shows Certain Song Given Differences Responsibility Talking Fans Listening Radio Making A Difference Writing Songs

Author:Randy Owen

“Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.”

Writing Use Paper Cracks

Author:Stephen Fry

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.”

Writing Humans Looks Stills Use Problem Realizing Figures Speech Symbols Aliens Human Life Staring Complexity Haunting Uneasy Figures Of Speech Complexity Of Human

Book:The Educated Imagination

Source: The Educated Imagination

“I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.”

Writing Real Stories Use Seems Stuff Confused Revelations

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.”

Needs Writing Kind May Use Tools Code Native Publish Iphone Apps Ipads Blackberries Browsers

Author:Jim Balsillie

“Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.”

Knows Writing Use Silence Poet Academic Cages Boldness Craziness Craziness Of Life

Author:Kenneth Koch

“Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.”

Way Writing Use Language Education Labels Phrases Literacy

Author:Lucy Calkins

“The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.”

Knows Writing Use Seems Clear Letters Mark Scripts Sentences Foolish Devices Spells Publishers Confusing Printed Punctuation Punctuation Marks

Author:Andy Rooney

“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.”

Writing Trying Kind May Book Use Order Sides Intellect Paradox Usual Glimpse

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.”

Writing Use Artist Memories Poet Brilliant Prose Songwriters Using Me

Author:Paul McCartney

“I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.”

Writing Mind I Can Use Body Five Exercise Stretching Nimble

Author:Anna Olson

“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.”

People Ifs Writing Reason Facts Use Courses Blood Cry Normal Prison Ill Prisoner Autonomy Frustrating Ink Restriction Mentally Ill

Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty

“Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.”

People Thinking Way Writing Mean Use Feelings Certain Attitude Seeing Influence Subjects Style Produce Reader Determination Atmosphere

Author:Randall Jarrell

“I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'”

Thinking Writing Hard Use Song Left Studios Nine

Author:Jessie J

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