Writing Quotes
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
Weird Al Yankovic
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I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
Philip Pullman
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When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
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Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
Thomas Harris
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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
Denis Johnson
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I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
Danny Strong
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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.
M. Shadows
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[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.
Manning Marable
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It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
Alison Moyet
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
Carine Roitfeld
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I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.
Fred Savage
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I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
Lee Smith
