Writing Quotes
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You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.
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I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.
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I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.
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I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.
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I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
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Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?
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I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.
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Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.
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I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.
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Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.
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I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
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No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.
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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.
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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.
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I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
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You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.
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I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.
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No one is making extraordinary things alone. They might be alone in their bedroom while they're recording or writing, but they didn't actually conjure that thing out of nothing - without influence - without assistance - without anything.
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Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
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I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
