Writing Quotes
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The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and don't see the connection there, and I've always felt like you're more able to communicate if you have a bigger toolbox to work with.
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I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.
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I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
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One of the pleasures of writing novels is that my characters usually do something. But in real life we often stay locked in a situation that we know is painful or wrong.
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I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.
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I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.
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I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.
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I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
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Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
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I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.
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If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
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For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.
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If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
