Writing Quotes
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Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
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Start writing, and the muse will come. Not every time, but keep at it, and the muse will come enough for you to get the initial writing done.
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I started writing songs at 17.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
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When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.
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I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.
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I'm writing songs that I want to sing.
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Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
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Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
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Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.
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I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.
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I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
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I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
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I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.
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I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
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I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol' or a TV show like that, you wanna capitalize on that momentum, and you want to use that to your advantage, obviously, so the best way to do that is to get the music out as fast as possible. And there's no time to create, really.
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I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.
