Writing Quotes
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Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.
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Looks like the whole music touring industry is on hold for a little while. I’m trying to stay positive and enjoy the time off with my family and do a lot of writing. So far we’re all fine and I’ll keep you updated on…
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
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I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
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I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that way.
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Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
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If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.
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Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.
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He who writes badly thinks badly
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I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
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I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say.
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By the second half of the second century, apologies had become a popular form of Christian writing.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
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Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
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The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
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Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.
