Writing Quotes
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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.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.
Melanie Mayron
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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
Chad Smith
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.
Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Graham
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To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
Elliot Page
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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
Darren Star
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When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it.
Peter Morgan
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Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
Marissa Moss
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When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.
Alexi Zentner
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
Cristina Henriquez
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For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
Meghan Daum
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I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.
Amor Towles
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I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
Maria Semple
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We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
Grace Chatto
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I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.
Alexandra Petri
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My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass
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Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.
M. J. Rose
