Writing Quotes
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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.
Lee Daniels
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If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
Philippe Falardeau
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'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
Tavi Gevinson
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
Octavia E. Butler
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Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
Jonathan Coe
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
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'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
Satya Bhabha
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All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
Elaine Stritch
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I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.
Marshall Goldsmith
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I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
Nicki Minaj
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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.
George Ezra
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My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.
Jim Beaver
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
T. J. Miller
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Umberto Eco
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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
Christopher McQuarrie
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I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.
Matthew Pearl
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I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
Jewel Kilcher
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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
Elmore Leonard
