Writing Quotes
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The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can't do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
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On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
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Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
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I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.
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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
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Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?
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That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.
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I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
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You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
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Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
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When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
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I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.
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Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
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No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.
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I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.
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Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.
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As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.
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I loved 'Dexter.' I loved the writing of 'Dexter.' I thought that was a brilliant show, and Michael C. Hall was just brilliant.
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
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When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.
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Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.
