Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.
When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.
You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.
He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing? - Goldie Hawn
It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams. Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men. - Johannes Gutenberg
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts. - Naomi Wolf
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
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