Writing Quotes
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Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I have a lot to say and feel. I want to process those and write it down on paper and put my hands on the keyboard before they become the past.
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I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor. I get on airplanes. I live a normal life and sometimes I'll notice something or read things or experience things.
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Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
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After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.
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The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it. I went back to school, and then I started writing nonfiction kind of by accident.
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I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
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I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
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What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!
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A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
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All writing begins in the sea of experience.
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I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
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I've been writing since I was really young.
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
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Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
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I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.
