Writing Quotes
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I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I remember, when I first rapped, I was writing raps. I don't write raps at all; I stopped early. I don't know - it seems like every day I find something a little bit easier.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.
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I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
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Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
