Writing Quotes
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I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
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The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
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I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
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I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
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I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.
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I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.
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Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
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I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.
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Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.
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It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
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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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Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
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Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.
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The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
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Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.
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When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
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I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
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Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
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I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.
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I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.
