Writing Quotes
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Writing comedy is a superpower.
Abi Morgan
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
T. C. Boyle
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It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
Alice Oswald
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A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.
David Bowie
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I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.
Noah Benjamin Lennox
Animal Collective
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.
David Twohy
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I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.
Jon Watts
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That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
Daphne Gottlieb
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What he's likely to do is to continue writing and speaking, as he has done to some extent at the Fed, and pursuing his interests in economics, which are very intense, ... He loves working with data and thinking of new ideas about the economy. I suspect we will get some of that, and in some ways, he'll be a little bit freer to speak.
Alice Rivlin
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So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx
