Writing Quotes
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When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.
Clark Gregg
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Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.
Donald Driver
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Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.
Elif Safak
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I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
Paula McLain
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A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
Pete Townshend
The Who
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
Jodi Picoult
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Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
Ann Packer
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Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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We're drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit - addictive, even. Your attitude should be: 'I can do this, but I mustn't make it too intimidating.'
Keri Smith
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Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
Daphne Guinness
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As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
James Salter
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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
W. P. Kinsella
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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.
Tony Kushner
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A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
W. G. Sebald
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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
David Sedaris
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Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
Anne Rivers Siddons
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The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
Carl Hiaasen
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The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.
Maurice Blanchot
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.
Steve Martin
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In a digital age, I still love sending and receiving cards, hand-writing notes, and wrapping gifts.
Matthew Williamson
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The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.
Dominique McElligott
