Writing Quotes
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.
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During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.
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If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
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I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
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Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.
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One day I want to write a full-on horror book.
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My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.
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That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.
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You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.
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I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
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Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.
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At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.
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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
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I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by. I was amazed when I started reaching these goals by the date I had listed on them. It was a daily visualization exercise, and it almost always works.
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Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
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Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened to me. I love it.
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Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.
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My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
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It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.
