Writing Quotes
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
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Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
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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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As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
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If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.
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I think we sometimes forget that we have so many other places to create change. My dad taught me this, but the political is one spot to make change. But so is writing a book.
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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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Good directing is good writing and good casting.
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
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If you don't know it, don't write it.
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I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
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Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
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I always write well in New York.
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When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
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To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
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I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
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I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
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I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
