Writing Quotes
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I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.
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I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
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I believe in my writing.
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I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.'
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called 'Kitten.'
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
