Writing Quotes
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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'Daredevil: Season One' is kind of in-between. On the one hand, sure, it's a graphic novel. But on the other, it's beholden to existing continuity, and we're still telling the story in issue-length chapters. So it's not that different to writing a miniseries, and I've done plenty of those.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.
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Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.
