I hate writing, I love having written.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross ...
The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide ...
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
You can’t write with dry ink. Likewise, using another author’s dried words to make your writing more fluid is not only dishonest, but it’s against everything I stand for as a former lifeguard.
It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.
When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.
If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand.
It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.
There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is es...
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
