Writing Quotes
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As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.
Mark Billingham
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I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.
Peter Carey
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
Jane Smiley
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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
Serj Tankian
System Of A Down
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I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
Brian Lumley
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I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.
Serj Tankian
System Of A Down
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Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.
Bob Newhart
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
William H. Gass
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I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
Nelsan Ellis
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The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.
Sarah Gadon
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Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.
Alexandra Fuller
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I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
Lisa Scottoline
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Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.
John Noble
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I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.
Ann Hood
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When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
Sasha Alexander
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I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.
Frankie Cosmos
