Steve Martin Quotes

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

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• I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Army

• When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Start

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Style

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Think

• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Red

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
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  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Like

• I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Problem

• All good writing comes out of aloneness.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Writing
  • Good Writing

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
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  • Change

• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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  • Never
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• When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Poetry

• I started writing songs at age 15.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Started

• Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

  

  Edward Carey
  • World
  • Writing

• I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Age
  • Listen

• My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Up

• I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

  

  Adam Conover
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• I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

  

  Steve Martin
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