Writing Quotes
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You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.
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The furniture is comfortable to me. Rather than making a chair to sleep in or a machine to live it, it is better to make a bed. A straight chair is best for eating or writing. The third position is standing.
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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
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Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's salary or the office rent.
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My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.
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I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.
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I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
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Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in English in the United States is anything but a humanist. So all poets, including myself, seem to be under that umbrella. We just don't have Rush Limbaugh poets, Ann Coulter poets.
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Cicero wouldn’t approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.
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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.
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Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?
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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
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The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.
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I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.
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I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
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The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.
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One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
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It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.
