It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with I've got to get another play
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.
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This is the image from which he was born... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor, containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility... The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them and equally horrified by them...
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
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Writing is very much a playground; an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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The writer's duty is to keep on writing
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She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it will make up into a shape, while I write to cover a frame of ideas.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
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But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately conditioned by all his past itching and twitching, and by all his past theorizing about them.
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When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live
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