Writing Quotes
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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
Owen King
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Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.
Etgar Keret
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When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
Joseph Heller
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I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.
Caitlin Rose
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I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.
Meg Cabot
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When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.
Marie Lu
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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.
Matt de la Pena
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
Neil Gaiman
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Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to do and find a way to do that as an adult for their jobs. A lot of people have jobs they don't like, and it makes for very unhappy people. So I tell them if you like to write, or run around, or dig in the dirt, then find a job that will allow you to do that, and you'll be happy.
Kadir Nelson
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My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.
Jillian Rose Banks
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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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I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.
Steven Soderbergh
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And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
Sharron Angle
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I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.
Colman Domingo
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I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.
Anthony Santos
Aventura
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Flaubert read too many books, and in consequence some of his own books stagger under the weight of his erudition. He said he'd read some preposterous number of books to prepare for the writing of Salammbô, and you can feel them dragging the novel down. It would have been much better if he'd made it all up.
John Banville
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I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
Peter Temple
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I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.
Kevin Dillon
