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.'
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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.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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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?'
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.
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Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.
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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.
