Writing Quotes
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I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.
Rebecca Ferguson -
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Ernest Gaines
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Maria Semple -
The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.
Ari Hest -
There's nothing personal in it THE SKRIKER. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.
Caryl Churchill -
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
Stephen Collins -
Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is patient with you, and you'll learn to be patient with others.
Woodrow M. Kroll -
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
John Gardner
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When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.
Erin McKeown -
I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
Michael Palin -
Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.
Sandra Cisneros -
From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.
Mike Posner -
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
Peter Landesman
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Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
Caroline Kennedy -
The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene -
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
William Goldman -
It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
Erin McKeown -
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.
Francine Prose -
Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.
Terry Brooks -
It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.
Rich Robinson The Black Crowes -
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.
Stephen Dunn