Writing Quotes
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Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
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It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.
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The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities.
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I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
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A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
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I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
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It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
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Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
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I write for myself things that I've gone through.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
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For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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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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One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.
