Writing Quotes
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The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
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I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had with that. And I don't know of a more important message.
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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
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To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else.
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.
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'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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Working on 'Mad Men' was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.
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I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.
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My writing is inspired by where I come from, where I am today, and where I hope to go some day.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.
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...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
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I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.
