Writing Quotes
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
Louise Brooks
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Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.
Jonathan Galassi
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When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.
Mike Posner
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In the future, I'd like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I'd be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing.
Adam Rex
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With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you learn. You can't be real precious. When you're doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It's a different animal.
Alex Kurtzman
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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
Jim Harrison
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Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier, and fight for love? Do you wanna travel the world? Do you wanna be a diver for pearls? Or climb the mountain, and touch the clouds above? Be anyone you want to be. Bring to life your fantasies. But I want something in return, I want you to burn, burn for me, baby. Like a candle in the night. Oh burn, burn for me, burn for me.
Jo Dee Messina
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'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
Janna Levin
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Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing.
David Leslie Johnson
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Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
Fran Lebowitz
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
Emma Donoghue
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff.
Max Schneider
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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
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult
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General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.
Martin Rees
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Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.
Mark Frauenfelder
