Writing Quotes
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I write what I see and whatever inspires me. The energy the earth gives me, what's on my mind, or what's in my heart becomes part of the lyrical content.
Rick Anthony DeJesus
Adelitas Way
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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
Leo Ornstein
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Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It’s not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.
Ed Rosenthal
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I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.
Erin Maya Darke
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
Jason Mraz
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I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.
Eleanor Catton
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Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
Crystal Lowe
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Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
Dawn French
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I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.
Henry Winkler
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
William Hazlitt
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You see a comic, and you're like, 'Oh wow: the Riddler has been drawn this way, and he's been drawn that way.' There are tons of looks, and his personality changes based on who's writing them.
Cory Michael Smith
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When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
Elizabeth McCracken
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But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
William Cowper
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope
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Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.
Allan Guthrie
