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" Quotes and Sayings About writing

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Find Life Living Nocturnal
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Any Apprenticeship Enough Kind
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Abject Acting Age Environment
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Contact Enjoy Football Get
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Different Intention Kind Letters
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

About Detest Except Make
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Writer Organism Writing Heart
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“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”

Little Pencil Writing God
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

Think Great Dad Same
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Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…

Writing Paying Formal Visit
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The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

Show Allow Myself Writing
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Exact Man Reading Ready
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Built Evolved Failures Process
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It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

Allow Bones Children Rise
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

About Am Hate I Am
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Because Fiction Like More
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

About Arts Because Business
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Kind Mysticism Writing There
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Any Chapter Doing Every
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

About Culture Everything Makes
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Always Book Tour Meet
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Boring Much Patience Takes
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Even His Man Originality
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Damn Easy Easy Reading Hard
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Cash Ends Family First
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The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

About Been Better Books
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

After Again Carry Harry
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

About Animal Animals Belong
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

About Beings Constant Human
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

After Claims Diligently Elizabeth
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
Autobiography Storytelling Writing
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Awhile Bliss Cafe Idea
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Business Business Side Couple Extra
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Did Give Good Good Writing
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

After Back Because Better
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With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

Always Back Barrel Bottom
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Beneficial Effects Just Keep
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Act Away Everybody Myself
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I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

About Challenge Equal Exactly
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I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

Connected Deeply Feel Imagine
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Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

About Am Difference Difficulty
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Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

About Anything Confidence Point
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There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

Convert Could Creative Day
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