Writing Quotes
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Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
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In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.
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if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
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I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a long time to realise that what a writer really wants is a production that matches the play and the writing. It is the only way the play can achieve its full potential.
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
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I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.
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I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.
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For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
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If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.
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I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
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The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
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From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
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Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.
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Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.
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Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that process, I just do my best to be honest with myself and look inside myself and whatever comes out usually just reflects or depicts what I'm going through in my life at that time.
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Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.
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With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."
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I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
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I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
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We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.
