Zach Condon Quotes
I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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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.
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I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
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Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
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I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.
