Kathy Acker Quotes
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.Kathy Acker
Quotes to Explore
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Daniel Burnham -
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
Beck -
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Padgett Powell -
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
Vince Gill -
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Jackie DeShannon -
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
Rachel Field -
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
Karen Bender -
There are no rules to writing a song.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
Aaron Sorkin -
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown -
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
Ted Dekker
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
Karl Malone -
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
J. A. Konrath -
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E. L. Doctorow -
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
Kate Christensen -
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
Kate Thompson -
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.
Marian Keyes -
Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.
Joseph Brodsky -
To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!
C.B. Cebulski -
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
Martin Luther -
I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag -
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
Kathy Acker