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" Quotes and Sayings About writing

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

About Asked Been Cholera
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Actor Applied Basically Everything
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Accumulate Anything Appetite Down
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

About Art Australia Beauty
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Doing Else Feel Only
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Away Exhausting Far Know
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
Begin Beginning Continue End
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

About Handwriting More Perfume
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Art Baths Bubble Friends
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Discipline Down First First Step
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

Away Come Express Fades
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Decision Find Made More
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

Always Growing Growth Guitarist
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Album Because Covers Ever
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Been Else Matters Nothing
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

America Been Concerned Depicting
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Able All My Life Anything Been
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

Get Go Like Somewhere
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Blood Gets Least Producers
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Pilot Scripts Simply Time
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I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

Book Columns Could Had
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Alive Day Only Really
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Cannot Honest Man Separated
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Above Approve Commit Die
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

About Anymore Because Classes
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

About Ask Doubt Guide
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Ability Activity Good Good Writing
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
Good Good Way Something Sometimes
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I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
Book First Great Great Success
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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Done Effect Got Keep
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I've been writing since I was really young.

Been Really Since Writing
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Easier Get I Love Language
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Acting Directing Frustrating Heaven
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Away Been Cannot Done
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Author Believe Man New
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Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

Allowed Enjoy Enjoy Life Life
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