Writing Quotes
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet.
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I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
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Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.
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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
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I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
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I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
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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.
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You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
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When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I was doing Marvel's 'Batman,' and Reverend Achebe became sort of the Joker to Panther's Batman.
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Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
