Writing Quotes
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Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.
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I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.
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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
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I've been writing since I was really young.
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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.
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People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
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I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too minute. Sometimes, at the end of the day, there's just not enough colors involved - visually, there are just words on a page.
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I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
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It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.
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If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.
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All our songs are about real people, true events. We do write about DC Comics and things like The Replacements. It's pretty much good conversations that happen at Art Brut shows. It's like making friends - like a Wanted ad: "Man that likes the Replacements and DC Comics wants friends to drink with at venue tonight. Who's coming?" It's like that.
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There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that's probably another reason I don't go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It's boring, dull, very lazy writing.
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A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.
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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.
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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like that. You and you partner have to do everything and that's kind of like facing the blank page as a writer.
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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.
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When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
