All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
