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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

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.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

I write all my sermons.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

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.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.