Writing Quotes
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I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.
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Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
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I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it and live out your dream on any scale is amazing. I don't take any of it for granted at all.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Vigorous writing is concise.
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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
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People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
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A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
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The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
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But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
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I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.
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I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.
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Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.
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If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
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I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
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I prefer my writing to do all the talking for me.
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It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.
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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
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The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.
