Writing Quotes
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.
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People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.
Colson Whitehead -
Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.
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Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.
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We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.
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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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I like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot my first film - I was very scared, of course, and I prepared everything, I wanted to make sure that the characters did the right thing at the right time on the storyboard. But then I realised that in life, there is so much more than what you can predict or write in advance, that when you shoot the story, it's good to leave some gaps where you lose control. I think this combination of chaos and organisation gives a kind of quality.
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan Alley. ...and we were the night shift! They gave us keys, because they knew the best songs weren't written in daylight.... We got our keys taken away several times...me and Guy Clark.
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I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.
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What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.
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I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
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The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.
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You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
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Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
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If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.
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Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
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I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.
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Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.
