Writing Quotes
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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.
Marilyn Nelson
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I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I 'write' with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around.
Jasmila Zbanic
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I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.
Jon Bon Jovi
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I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.
Mike Greenberg
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I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
Caroline Leavitt
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In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
Leo Ornstein
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I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
Jeffrey Brown
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
Flannery O'Connor
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Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before lunch.
Ben Dolnick
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I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.
Delta Goodrem
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There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
Colm Meaney
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All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
Jesse Kellerman
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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.
Jack Roy
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Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.
Elif Safak
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All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.
Delta Burke
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Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
Anand Giridharadas
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I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.
Emma Roberts
