Writing Quotes
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
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I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
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Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.
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I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
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I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
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Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.
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If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.
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Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
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My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing.
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I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
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Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
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Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.
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I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.
