Writing Quotes
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.
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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
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When you're writing on someone else's show, you don't have to think as hard about nailing the perfect tone because you're kind of just like, 'Here's 20 ideas I thought of, and they can just pick the closest.'
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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.
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I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.
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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.
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Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
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My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters.
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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.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
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The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
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The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
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Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.
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Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.
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There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.
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My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them.
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The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
