Writing Quotes
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I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.
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There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
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I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
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Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.
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Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
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I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.
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Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
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Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
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The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.
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When I stand up from my writing desk, 'John Banville', or 'Benjamin Black' – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.
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Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
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I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.
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I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
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Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.
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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
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I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
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You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.
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I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.
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I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.
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I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.
