Writing Quotes
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
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Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?
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There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.
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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
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Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its own peculiar way of getting written.
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Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
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I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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He = Duchamp himself, writing in the third person CHOSE IT. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.
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My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The characters are much better.
