Writing Quotes
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
Etty Hillesum
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
William H. Macy
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I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
Uzodinma Iweala
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You gotta love this thing. Whatever you choose to pursue - medicine, law, writing, you have to love it. You study it, you eat it, you drink it, you try it, you do it, you love it in every way.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
Ernest Hemingway
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With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.
Judy Blume
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I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
Jeff Bridges
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I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.
Dawn Angelique
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The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
Michael Arndt
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Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.
Karl Wolf
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Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to be uncontainable and have to play it again. And I have written songs like that that are just for me. It's like writing a letter to someone you're angry at but never sending it and just putting it in a drawer.
Maren Morris
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Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.
John Ridley
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When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.
Anil Dash
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I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
George Murray
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After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
Alan Light
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I knew that what I did visually could not be completely understood. I knew that certain aspects of the work need a long time to develop. You get the visual idea in two seconds, but this idea can be developed like like a theory. You can see later on if the theory was correct, followed, or completely abandoned. That's why the writing can advance what is done. This is more or less how I started to write: to be sure that people will not totally misunderstand what my goal was.
Daniel Buren
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
Bono
U2
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
Etgar Keret
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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
Virginia Woolf
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For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
Tommy Bolin
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I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.
Corey Taylor
Stone Sour
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I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.
Jane Campion
