Writing Quotes
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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 can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
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When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
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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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My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
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Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.
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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
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To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
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I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
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I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.
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I just want to keep writing music.
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When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
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...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
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I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
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When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
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They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.
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Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.
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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.
