Writing Quotes
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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
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Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
Cliff Martinez
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I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.
Carrie Fisher
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison
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Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.
Lianne La Havas
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
Paul Theroux
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I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
Dave Attell
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
Damian Marley
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
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My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got tapped to run the music department for DreamWorks. She worked right under Hans Zimmer during the heady days of Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gladiator just to name a few. She was and still is, one of the great music executives and has quite a career path of her own.
Danny Jacob
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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.
Leslie Jamison
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
R. L. Stine
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
Pat Metheny
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To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
Adam Driver
