Writing Quotes
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The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.
Paul Auster -
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
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You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.
Carolyn Kizer -
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
Anne McCaffrey -
In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.
Eric Metaxas -
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.
Brian Tracy -
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
Scott Rudin -
I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.
Lurlene McDaniel
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Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
Amor Towles -
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
John Constable -
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
John Irving -
I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record "Peace Trail".
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.
Michael Nyqvist -
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
Amy Bloom
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My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
John Darnielle -
I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.
Billy the Kid -
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook -
I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.
Dan Mazer -
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Margaret Mahy -
Yeah, writers do hate writing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
Jill Lepore -
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
Virginia Woolf -
I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.
Freya Ridings -
Writing this record was the first time we felt really at home in a long time
Dustin Kensrue