Writing Quotes
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I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
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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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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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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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Write what you care about.
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Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
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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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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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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.
