Writing Quotes
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A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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I write what I see and whatever inspires me. The energy the earth gives me, what's on my mind, or what's in my heart becomes part of the lyrical content.
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Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.
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Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.
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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
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Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words." "It makes them real, lord. It makes them last".
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Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
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It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot!
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TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.
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No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.
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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.
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Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
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If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.
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Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.
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As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.
