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Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
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Plot springs from character… I’ve always sort of believed that these people inside of me–these characters–know who they are and what they’re about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don’t type.
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
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Programming definitely requires a particular mindset, and normally the problem is working out what the program has to do, rather than actually writing the program once you’ve worked that bit out.
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Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man.
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing
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Samuel McChord Crothers, Every Man’s Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else,
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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Somebody asked me, ‘Bukowski, if you taught a course in writing what would you ask them to do?’ I answered, ‘I’d send them all to the racetrack and force them to bet $5 on each race.’ This ass thought I was joking. The human race is very good at treachery and cheating and modifying a position. What people who want to be writers need is to be put in an area that they cannot manuever out of by weak and dirty play. This is why groups of people at parties are so disgusting: all their envy and smallness and trickery surfaces. If you want to find out who your friends are you can do two things: invite them to a party or go to jail. You will soon find that you don’t have any friends.
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Song writing is my life and what I am about, and it’s all I have ever really wanted to do.
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Songwriting is one of those strange arts whereby you can have no inspiration for a long time then have a productive period where almost every day a new song is coming to you.
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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