Writing Quotes
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.
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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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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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When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
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You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
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If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.
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'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
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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 don't consider genre while writing.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.
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I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
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That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
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I love writing comedy.
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Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
