Writing Quotes
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
Chris Ware
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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.
Max Hastings
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The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
T. C. Boyle
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You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.
Yannis Philippakis
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I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.
Ann Hood
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Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
David Baboulene
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Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.
Amanda Joy Michalka
Aly & AJ
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I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.
Joanna Scott
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Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
Avi
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When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda Ueland
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Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.
William Allingham
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Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
Elizabeth David
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I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.
Chris Roberson
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Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power that writers have is not weighted down with absolute responsibility. It can neither be suppressed nor diminished, except by choice.
Brian Stableford
