There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Orson Scott Card

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I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Orson Scott Card

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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Jack Kerouac

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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

Jack Kerouac

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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer

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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Norman Mailer

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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Nora Ephron

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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

Nora Ephron

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One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

Nora Ephron

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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier

Elizabeth Moon

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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Nikki Sixx

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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nora Roberts

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I loved the process of writing.

Nora Roberts

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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.

Nora Roberts

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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Patti Smith

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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

Patti Smith

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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Jack Nicholson

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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Patton Oswalt

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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

Patton Oswalt

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I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Patton Oswalt

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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Patton Oswalt

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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

Nizar Qabbani

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

Nora Roberts

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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

Paul McCartney

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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.

Nora Roberts

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I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Nora Roberts

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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Jack Kirby

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Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Paula Abdul

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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

Peter Gabriel

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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Gabriela Mistral

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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Garrison Keillor

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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

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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.

Italo Calvino

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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.

Italo Calvino

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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Italo Calvino

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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.

Italo Calvino

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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Gene Wilder

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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

Peter Dinklage

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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.

Peter Dinklage

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury

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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Ray Bradbury

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You fail only if you stop writing.

Ray Bradbury

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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.

Ray Bradbury

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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.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Ray Bradbury

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Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

George Berkeley

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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Keith Richards

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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Orson Scott Card

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Orson Scott Card

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Jack Kerouac

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

Jack Kerouac

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Nora Ephron

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

Nora Ephron

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

Nora Ephron

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier

Elizabeth Moon

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Nikki Sixx

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nora Roberts

I loved the process of writing.

Nora Roberts

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.

Nora Roberts

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Jack Nicholson

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Patton Oswalt

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Patton Oswalt

Nizar Qabbani

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

Nora Roberts

Paul McCartney

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Nora Roberts

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Nora Roberts

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Jack Kirby

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Paula Abdul

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

Peter Gabriel

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Gabriela Mistral

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Garrison Keillor

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

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.

Italo Calvino

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.

Italo Calvino

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Italo Calvino

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.

Italo Calvino

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Gene Wilder