Writing Quotes
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When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
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First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
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Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?
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I was an A student and I liked creative writing.
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I always try and make people feel that they are strong enough to say something - anything, to anyone - even if it's a stranger or they're just writing a tweet if they're in danger.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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If it's not happening, write your own thing!
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
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My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.
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I love writing comics too much.
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I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
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It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
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There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
