Caroline Kennedy Quotes
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
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.
Kate Atkinson -
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 -
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor -
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
Zara Cox
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Fede Alvarez -
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua -
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw -
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
J. A. Konrath -
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite -
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
Kate Christensen
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
Mac DeMarco -
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
Victoria Aveyard -
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
Olivia d'Abo -
I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It's a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it's definitely worth chasing.
Corey Stoll -
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway -
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.
Eudora Welty -
When you're working, you have so many people working around you and being involved. It can get a bit overwhelming. I've just gotten used to it.
Alex Breckenridge -
All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.
Brendan Fraser -
I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
Caroline Kennedy