Writing Quotes
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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.
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Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.
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You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
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Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
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I think it's important to say typing in the computer is like the last, last phase of my writing process. That's kind of the fun part. Well, it's all somewhat fun, I suppose. But usually what happens is I think about a movie for at least a year - maybe a couple more - and I don't put anything down.
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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
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What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
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If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.
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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
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Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.
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I've always liked new writing.
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
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My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.
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I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.
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Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.
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I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.
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I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.
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He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
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Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
