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If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.
Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

























