Writing Quotes
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I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.
Alice McDermott
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I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
Bill Clegg
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There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
Abby Elliott
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction.
Boris Johnson
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
Kate Christensen
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
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When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
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There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.
Alisa Valdes
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
Dan Fogelberg
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So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.
Joan Armatrading
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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
Jodi Picoult
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
Jack Kent Cooke
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I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
Qin Shi Huang
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The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
Jens Lekman
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
David Knopfler
Dire Straits
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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist - all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
Neil Postman
