Writing Quotes
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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Write what you care about.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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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'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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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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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 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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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.
