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"302 Writing Quotes

Everything starts with writing.

Everything Starts Writing
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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Continue Elaborate Elite Fall
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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Anyway Good GoodIdea Idea
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Books Closest Come Ever
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
Alimony Class Curse Writing
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

Autobiography Report Not
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All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

Actually Mysteries Life Live
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I loved the process of writing.

Loved Process Writing
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Action Any Characters Come
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Art Interpretation Play Written
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Book Could Dreamed Having
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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
Always Branch Comedian Going
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I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Always New Onstage Out
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
About Because Still Writing
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I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
Torments Stuff About Write
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Least Love Love Stories Stories
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Else Falling Greatest Pleasures
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Category Expectations Framework Knowing
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I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

America Believe Groups I Believe
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Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Before Best Different Discard
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You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
Find Job Make Time
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Actually Create Does Down
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Also Backward Because Look
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Color Important Melancholy Nothing
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Certainly Dealing Difficult Difficult Thing
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Down Draft First Generally
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I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Cleaner Hope Started Than
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I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

Writing People Black Enemy
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Every ISee IWrite Inspired
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Fingers Me Simply Thinking
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Biting Divide Finger Licking
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I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Corrections Cross Difficulty Hand
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

City Encourages Logic Madness
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Clear Head Idea Life
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Interested Only Passage Rites
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Back Been Bit Bogart
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Cannot Destroy Drunk Must
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Easy Get ILove Idea
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Anything Anything Else Apprenticeship Craft
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Ambiguity Ambiguous Because Life
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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Life Filling Invent Write
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

Person First Novel Must
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Detail Discover Examining Level
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From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Always Aware Dre Got
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