Writing Quotes
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
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Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.
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Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.
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When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
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Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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Every love song I write is for Linda.
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I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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I LOVE Taylor Swift's 1989. I think it's really cool at the moment that the production on her record is just as strong as the writing. I like the fact that the early nineties sound seems to have come back around.
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I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.
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Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
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I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.
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If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.
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You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.
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The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.
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Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.
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Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.
