Writing Quotes
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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
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I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
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The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about the suffering and trauma that so many in Mexico and Central America endure, and that is all around us whether we notice it or not.
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Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.
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We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
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If you watch wrestling like I do, you watch for the wrestling. There's so much talking. There's some 'twit' back there with a pencil behind his ear writing down all these things for wrestlers to say.
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Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
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Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.
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You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at you fast and it's timely and then five minutes later we're on to something else. It caters to our desire for instant gratification. And I think blogs also have fluidity that's exciting. You have a lot of real enthusiastic music fans for the most part that are writing sometimes for a large audience, and I think certain blogs have a little too much power over what someone likes or doesn't like.
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I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.
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I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.
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Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
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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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Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?
