Mo Collins (Maureen Ann Collins) Quotes
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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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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
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I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.
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Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
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I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
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You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.
