Writing Quotes
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
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Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.
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I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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Micro computers used as word processors complement the audio facilities, enabling the interactive teaching of all four language skills reading, listening, speaking and writing.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
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I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex or Spin or Blender or whatever, one of those magazines. She'd probably be flyer to me than the person she's writing about.
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One of my favorites is 'Parks and Recreation.' Great show; awesome writing; beautiful, diverse cast. They also have a very diverse writer's room, which I love.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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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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There's no better way to process pain than to write.
