Writing Quotes
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If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.
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Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
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I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.
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The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
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I cook and I chat. That's what I do. I love to write recipes, but basically, if you had to put it in a nutshell, I cook and I chat.
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Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.
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The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
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I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.
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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
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I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
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I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
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If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.
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I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.
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I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.
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When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
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My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.
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If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive tax reform is tremendously difficult.
