Writing Quotes
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As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.
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You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It's a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it's definitely worth chasing.
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The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when you think you can't possibly labour for another moment, and that, paradoxically, is when you have to push hardest.
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I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.
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I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me
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I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
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For me, writing is just processing.
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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.
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I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!
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Writing in a strict form can surprise you.
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Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
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An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
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When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'
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I've been writing way before 'X Factor,' and I've been doing shows before 'X Factor.' And everything I did on this show was me being me. Same way I acted in the show is the same way I act now as an artist.
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled out all the tracks I liked the most.
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Limited series ensure that we maintain the quality of the writing on the sets.
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
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Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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When you are happy it is harder to write [songs].
