Quotes about Write Up

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60. Votes: 4

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli Votes: 3

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Votes: 3

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. Votes: 3

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently. Votes: 3

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important. Votes: 3

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. Votes: 3

Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results. Votes: 3

When I have to critique someone else's web design, rather than write up a giant email or take a screengrab and move stuff around in Photoshop, I put together a really quick CSS doc making my changes. Votes: 3

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand. Votes: 3

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work. Votes: 3

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there. Votes: 3

I want to write about grown-up things. Votes: 2

I've never been able to write for stand-up. Votes: 2

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls. Votes: 2

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings. Votes: 2

Write a page a day. It will add up. Votes: 2

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal. Votes: 2

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do. Votes: 2

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals. Votes: 2

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day. Votes: 2

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up. Votes: 2

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. Votes: 2

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. Votes: 2

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up. Votes: 2

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. Votes: 2

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. Votes: 2

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. Votes: 2

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world. Votes: 2

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. Votes: 2

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them. Votes: 2

I write-down to speak-up. Votes: 0

I write-down to speak-up Votes: 0

Live it up so you can write it down. Votes: 0

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new! Votes: 0

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. Votes: 0

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write. Votes: 0

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse. Votes: 0

Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn't. Blow something up. But well. Votes: 0

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it. Votes: 0

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up. Votes: 0

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. Votes: 0

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. Votes: 0

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. Votes: 0

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. Votes: 0

A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop. Votes: 0

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them. Votes: 0

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless. Votes: 0

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. Votes: 0

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write. Votes: 0

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem. Votes: 0

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act. Votes: 0

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more, Votes: 0

I love getting up in the morning with nothing else to do except write. Votes: 0

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. Votes: 0

I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh" Votes: 0

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours. Votes: 0

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see. Votes: 0

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night. Votes: 0

Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet. Votes: 0

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. Votes: 0

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough. Votes: 0

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. Votes: 0

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. Votes: 0

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. Votes: 0

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole. Votes: 0

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less. Votes: 0

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song. Votes: 0

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. Votes: 0

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Votes: 0

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Votes: 0

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. Votes: 0

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. Votes: 0

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing. Votes: 0

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time. Votes: 0

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access. Votes: 0

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. Votes: 0

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you. Votes: 0

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. Votes: 0

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem. Votes: 0

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself. Votes: 0

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done. Votes: 0

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. Votes: 0

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes. Votes: 0

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard. Votes: 0

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented. Votes: 0

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. Votes: 0

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. Votes: 0

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live. Votes: 0

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world. Votes: 0

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life. Votes: 0

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up Votes: 0

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years. Votes: 0

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living. Votes: 0

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. Votes: 0

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. Votes: 0

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work. Votes: 0

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. Votes: 0

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. Votes: 0

Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55. Votes: 0

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. Votes: 0

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope. Votes: 0

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. Votes: 0

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading. Votes: 0

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. Votes: 0

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. Votes: 0

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song. Votes: 0

If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted. Votes: 0

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel. Votes: 0

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. Votes: 0

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older. Votes: 0

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me. Votes: 0

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. Votes: 0

With fiction, there's no reason why everything you write shouldn't be amazing. Nobody's stopping you from making up better stuff. Votes: 0

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. Votes: 0

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. Votes: 0

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write. Votes: 0

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself. Votes: 0

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself. Votes: 0

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people. Votes: 0

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone. Votes: 0

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. Votes: 0

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write. Votes: 0

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. Votes: 0

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. Votes: 0

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. Votes: 0

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. Votes: 0

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. Votes: 0

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me. Votes: 0

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music. Votes: 0

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. Votes: 0

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to. Votes: 0

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up. Votes: 0

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP. Votes: 0

Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' Votes: 0

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working. Votes: 0

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. Votes: 0

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me. Votes: 0

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. Votes: 0

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write. Votes: 0

I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night. Votes: 0

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. Votes: 0

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. Votes: 0

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them. Votes: 0

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button. Votes: 0

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people. Votes: 0

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up. Votes: 0

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career. Votes: 0

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. Votes: 0

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel. Votes: 0

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. Votes: 0

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in. Votes: 0

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs. Votes: 0

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise. Votes: 0

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. Votes: 0

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals. Votes: 0

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true. Votes: 0

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write. Votes: 0

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. Votes: 0

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,' Votes: 0

I just write about what comes up. Sometimes you're thinking about Palestine, and sometimes you're thinking about sex. People have a lot going on. Votes: 0

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write. Votes: 0

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. Votes: 0

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing. Votes: 0

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys. Votes: 0

I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991. Votes: 0

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying. Votes: 0

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary. Votes: 0

Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes. Votes: 0

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons. Votes: 0

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about. Votes: 0

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. Votes: 0

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up. Votes: 0

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it. Votes: 0

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with. Votes: 0

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE! Votes: 0

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes. Votes: 0

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me. Votes: 0

Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up. Votes: 0

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject. Votes: 0

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up. Votes: 0

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things. Votes: 0

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at. Votes: 0

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting. Votes: 0

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write. Votes: 0

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences. Votes: 0

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment. Votes: 0

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy. Votes: 0

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up. Votes: 0

I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that. Votes: 0

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens. Votes: 0

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. Votes: 0

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down. Votes: 0

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. Votes: 0

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on. Votes: 0

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking. Votes: 0

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions. Votes: 0

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story. Votes: 0

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential. Votes: 0

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word. Votes: 0

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb. Votes: 0

In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction. Votes: 0

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new. Votes: 0

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work. Votes: 0

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. Votes: 0

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death. Votes: 0

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write. Votes: 0

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit. Votes: 0

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction. Votes: 0

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control. Votes: 0

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way. Votes: 0

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it. Votes: 0

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it. Votes: 0

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all. Votes: 0

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down. Votes: 0

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees. Votes: 0

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay? Votes: 0

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back. Votes: 0

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best. Votes: 0

Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie, and write '6' on the label. Votes: 0

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband. Votes: 0

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood. Votes: 0

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write. Votes: 0

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process. Votes: 0

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. Votes: 0

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means. Votes: 0

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books. Votes: 0

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up. Votes: 0

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go. Votes: 0

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. Votes: 0

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.' Votes: 0

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up. Votes: 0

Technically and financially, it might still make sense to give up on Ares I and simply write off the money spent on it, but politically, that's probably impossible. Votes: 0

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. Votes: 0

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose. Votes: 0

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things. Votes: 0

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing. Votes: 0

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits. Votes: 0

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about. Votes: 0

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think. Votes: 0

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. Votes: 0

You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again. Votes: 0

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half. Votes: 0

I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent. Votes: 0

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. Votes: 0

Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve. Votes: 0

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. Votes: 0

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow. Votes: 0

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. Votes: 0

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. Votes: 0

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. Votes: 0

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I'm sort of crazy baffoon who can't make up his mind what to do in life Votes: 0

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can. Votes: 0

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it. Votes: 0

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up. Votes: 0

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence. Votes: 0