Ellen Hunnicutt Quotes
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
Kara Hayward
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
Tamsin Egerton
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
Faye Dunaway
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
Hansika Motwani
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
Umera Ahmad
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
Zygmunt Bauman
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
Quincy Jones
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You write about what you know.
Larry David
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Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.
Mark Stoermer The Killers
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We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Patrick Ness
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After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.
Alfred Brendel
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To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
Shunryu Suzuki
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Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
Ellen Hunnicutt