Writing Quotes
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Writing is very hard: there will be weeks where I have nothing to write, and days I will get out three issues of the comic book as far as the outlines. It is a matter of there is nothing you can do about it – if the inspiration hits, it hits. If it doesn’t, there is nothing you can do to bring it out.
John Dolmayan
System Of A Down
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With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?
Peter Hambleton
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I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
Jim Crace
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I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
Andre Dubus III
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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
Ernest Hemingway
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I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
Lisa Jewell
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What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
Zachary Lazar
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In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.
Kami Garcia
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Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.
James Fenton
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Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
Mary Garden
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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.
Louis Sachar
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Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
Madame de Stael
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May it the opposition to fine writing be accounted for by the fact that the spirit of Puritanism, having been banished from the province of moral conduct, has found a refuge among the arts?
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.
Anupam Kher
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Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.
Bryce Dessner
The National
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I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
Owen King
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I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.
Paul S. Kemp
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On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
James Salter
