Lynn Nottage Quotes
What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.Lynn Nottage
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Candace Camp -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
Adam D'Angelo -
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Pamela Sargent
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Sam Hunt -
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.
E. B. White -
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot -
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
Laura Dern -
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
Rachel Joyce -
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.
Dan Hill
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
Barry Jenkins -
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Zach Braff -
I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
Floyd Skloot -
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.
Kate Thompson -
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
Hakan Nesser -
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.
Emily Giffin -
I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
Kelly Sue DeConnick -
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius -
The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
James Rosenquist -
I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.
John Hurt -
What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.
Lynn Nottage