Writing Quotes
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You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.
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It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
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Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.
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How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.
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I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
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Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'
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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it.
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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
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It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
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Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.
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The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.
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Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
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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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Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.
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I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
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Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.
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Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
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To write is to inform against others.
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Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.
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I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
