Writing Quotes
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I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
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There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.
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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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It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
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I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
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There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
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He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
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The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
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It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.
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Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
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I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
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We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.
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Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
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My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.
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If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.
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I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.
