Writing Quotes
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If it's not happening, write your own thing!
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You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
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I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.
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With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.
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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
