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It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Writing that's not working for a living.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.