Writing Quotes
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I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.
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I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'
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Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
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I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
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Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.
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I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.
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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
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My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
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I like to oversee what I do, so I have a hand in writing my songs. I also have people there to help me with my vision.
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The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
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When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
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When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.
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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
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Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.
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Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
