Writing Quotes
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So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?
Elizabeth Chandler -
For me, the real goal is to integrate. The thing that I'm most happy with is the fact that I've been able to keep doing all of it - to keep writing, and to keep acting in movies, and to keep acting on the stage, to keep directing plays. I find that they feed each other, and that I learn about acting from directing and I learn about writing from acting.
Ethan Hawke
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Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
Cecelia Ahern -
In the practice called free writing, you can use any object as your own personal Rorschach test for entering a stream of associations. Simply write the first thing that comes to your mind as you look at the object in front of you and then keep going without stopping, rereading, or crossing out.
Bessel van der Kolk -
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.
Catherine Brady -
Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on a barstool. An abstract thesis with no real life inside it. And then I start writing and the writing itself confounds me, taking away the comfort of knowing the end in advance. How is that even possible? Doesn't the conclusion come at the end? How can you begin with one - that seems odd, right?
Charles D'Ambrosio -
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.
Tommy Bolin -
So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.
Catie Curtis
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I'm finding writing very fascinating.
Eve Arden -
I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that way.
Nick Petrie -
Writing is a passion and when things happen in my life, I write a lot. It’s a form of therapy.
Una Healy -
Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
Susan Wiggs -
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
Ray Bradbury -
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
Richard Paul Evans
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I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.
Eugene Green -
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
Jonathan Ames -
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
Hilary Mantel -
Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.
Carl Phillips -
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.
Cary Ann Hearst
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
Judith Rossner -
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
Miguel de Cervantes -
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
Stephen Sondheim -
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.
Teju Cole