Writing Quotes
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I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
Alison Moyet
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When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.
Jennifer Egan
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
Andre Dubus III
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As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
Dinaw Mengestu
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Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
Lemon Andersen
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When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
Brit Marling
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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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In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
Marsha Norman
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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
Ian_Jack
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I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.
Gabrielle Aplin
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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E. L. Doctorow
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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
David McCullough
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I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I've resigned myself to that, and it's kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.
Andy Grammer
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To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
David Grann
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Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.
Kathi Appelt
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I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'
Jon Watts
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I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
Christine Feehan
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And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
F. F. Bruce Quotes
