Writing Quotes
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When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.
Nico Muhly
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I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.
Eliza Doolittle
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Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.
William Styron
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Upon the decease of my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.
George Washington
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I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.
Josh Malerman
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I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.
Peter Morgan
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Stephen Sondheim
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
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I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.
Rachael Yamagata
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Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist or not, I will always write songs.
Thomas Rhett
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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
Russell Banks
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When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
Sean O'Casey
