Writing Quotes
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My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.
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I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
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Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.
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Writing is my vacation from living.
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Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
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Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
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I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.
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I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.
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I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.
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I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
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Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.
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I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.
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I have a penchant, an appetite for writing lives, even unhappy ones, in the course of which the person holds on to a certain dignity up to the end, in spite of the disappointments, the things unfinished, the suffering…
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When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
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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 think we sometimes forget that we have so many other places to create change. My dad taught me this, but the political is one spot to make change. But so is writing a book.
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Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
