Writing Quotes
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By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.
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In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.
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It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat right, making everything sound right - you spent a freaking week trying to make it sound perfect, and someone comes along and shoots it down.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
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I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.
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The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
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I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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The only reason to write is from love.
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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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Don't talk about it; write.
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Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get to the end of the poem and I still haven't figured anything out, but at least I have a new poem out of it.
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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
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Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.
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Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
