Writing Quotes
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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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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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
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I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
