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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex Picture Quote #1

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years Picture Quote #1

It’s better for me to go up against someone’s passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things Picture Quote #1

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn’t realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line Picture Quote #1

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems Picture Quote #1

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process Picture Quote #1

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I could write songs about politics, but I’m conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago Picture Quote #1

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead Picture Quote #1

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else Picture Quote #1

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice Picture Quote #1

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort Picture Quote #1

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about Picture Quote #1

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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write Picture Quote #1

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn’t all that important to me Picture Quote #1

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them Picture Quote #1

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that Picture Quote #1

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season Picture Quote #1

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you’ve been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it’d be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble Picture Quote #1

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For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you’d be a fool if you wrote anything private on one Picture Quote #1

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps Picture Quote #1

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I’ve always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are Picture Quote #1

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania Picture Quote #1

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn’t have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn’t that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? Picture Quote #1

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still Picture Quote #1

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I’m still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door Picture Quote #1

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got Picture Quote #1

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not Picture Quote #1

If you ever read one of my books I hope you’ll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you’ll have to do that too Picture Quote #1

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I’d see it Picture Quote #1

Writing is an expression of the writer’s own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them Picture Quote #1

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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex (Wrote Quotes) My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years (Wrote Quotes) It’s better for me to go up against someone’s passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things (Wrote Quotes) When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn’t realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line (Wrote Quotes) In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems (Wrote Quotes) You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process (Wrote Quotes) I could write songs about politics, but I’m conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago (Wrote Quotes) I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead (Wrote Quotes) For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else (Wrote Quotes) In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice (Wrote Quotes) I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort (Wrote Quotes) I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about (Wrote Quotes) The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write (Wrote Quotes) I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn’t all that important to me (Wrote Quotes) Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them (Wrote Quotes) I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that (Wrote Quotes) When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season (Wrote Quotes) The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you’ve been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it’d be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble (Wrote Quotes) For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you’d be a fool if you wrote anything private on one (Wrote Quotes) There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps (Wrote Quotes) I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I’ve always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are (Wrote Quotes) I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania (Wrote Quotes) I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn’t have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn’t that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? (Wrote Quotes) I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still (Wrote Quotes) I’m still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door (Wrote Quotes) Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got (Wrote Quotes) He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not (Wrote Quotes) If you ever read one of my books I hope you’ll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you’ll have to do that too (Wrote Quotes) I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I’d see it (Wrote Quotes) Writing is an expression of the writer’s own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them (Wrote Quotes)

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