Writing Quotes
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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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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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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
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Good directing is good writing and good casting.
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I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
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It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.
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I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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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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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
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It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
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When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
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I have a writing addiction.
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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
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The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
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Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.
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I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
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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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Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.
