Writing Quotes
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
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Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us on. But because films cost a lot of money to make and a huge amount of effort to get the people to rally, you have to really like it; you can't just semi-like it. Getting to 'really like' is the part that takes the minute.
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The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.
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I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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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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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.
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Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
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I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
