Leon Uris Quotes
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.Leon Uris
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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.
Gabrielle Zevin -
The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
Dana Stabenow -
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony -
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.
Rachel Johnson -
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Candace Camp -
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
Rani Mukerji -
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan -
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith -
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
Gavin Hood -
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw -
I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
Mal Peet
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon -
'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
Ed Sheeran -
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua -
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
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I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
Satyajit Ray -
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.
Vanessa Carlton -
I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.
Pete Davidson -
I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor.
Jonathan Groff -
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Aamir Khan -
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
Leon Uris