Writing Quotes
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I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of - I am, however young, writing at random - straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness - without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?
John Keats
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
William Gibson
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I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
Margaret Stohl
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow
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I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
Mal Peet
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Vanilla Ice
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I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.
Jay IDK
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When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.
Marcia Clark
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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
H. G. Wells
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Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
Brian Molko
Placebo
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If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.
Martha Gellhorn
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The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.
Andy Stanley
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I've always loved writing.
Lily Collins
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To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
C. Thomas Howell
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I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.
Liam Gallagher
Oasis
