Writing Quotes
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Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.
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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.
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Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.
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I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.
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No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
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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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Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.
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I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.
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I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.
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I don’t know that liner note writing is a career, especially in this age of digital music, where the deluxe packages that marked the CD era have become ever more rare.
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Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.
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The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.
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Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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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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Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.
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Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.
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One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.
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I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
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You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.
