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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
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.
Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
























