Writing Quotes
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By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
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I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.
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Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales of the track in particular. Horses may win races, but they also win hearts as this impressive book proves beyond doubt. A memorable, sure-footed debut.
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I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really modern.
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I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.
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I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
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I just start my day really early. Everything happens in the morning time. Writing. Just everything. I can't - I don't know how to work late.
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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.
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I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.
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I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.
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In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
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It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.
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I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.
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I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.
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Vigorous writing is concise.
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I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.
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Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
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Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.
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I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
