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" Quotes and Sayings About writing

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Easily Employ Gain Hard
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Feel Like Busy Too
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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

About Account Am Both
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

Books Could Court Ghetto
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When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Big Big Thing Child Control
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

First House Hydrant Off
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The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.
Career Core Teaching Writing
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Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
Abstract Based Dangerous Laws
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God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Back Career Communicating Creative
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Bone Close Eight Episode
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

About Anywhere Between Day
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Hope Today Tomorrow Writing
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Like Nothing Pile Stinks
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

About Above Being Dignity
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Fact Writing Culture Art
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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Bad By The Time Did Get
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
Incredibly Job Lonely Writing
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Bad Hard Hard Work Health
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Act Faith Grammar Trick
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

Never Been Very Prolific
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

About Always Difficult Easy
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

About Largely Me Rewriting
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

Passion Writing Anymore Much
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Money Stopped Were Writing
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Also Different Human Metaphor
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violent Writing Art
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

Get Got Great My Own
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