Writing Quotes
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.
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Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
