Writing Quotes
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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
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Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.
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I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
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When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.
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Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.
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I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
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Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.
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The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
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I am always writing to myself.
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
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Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.
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There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.
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Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
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I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.
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The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.
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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
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We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.
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When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
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Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
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Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
