Writing Quotes
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Nathaniel Hawthorne says, 'Easy reading is damn hard writing.' I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
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I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got something I want people to hear because I know they'll like it. They've gotta like it! The songs I've been writing are the sort of things you have to like.
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I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
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There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.
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By surpassing writing, we have regained our wholeness, not on a national or cultural but cosmic plane.
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It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
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Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.
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We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on paper, you might even avoid writing down a name, let alone if they have blonde hair or this or that, to stop.
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In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.
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If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously, they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
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In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.
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Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
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For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
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You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and you'll feel like an idiot.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
