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I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
- Jeffrey Brown
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I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
- Ben Gibbard
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I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
- Chrystia Freeland
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When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
- Roddy Doyle
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A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.'
- Bethany Joy Lenz
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
- Wallace Stegner
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
- Bret Easton Ellis
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I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
- Dick Schaap
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One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.
- Sara Bareilles
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If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
- Shelby Foote
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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
- Shelby Foote
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
- Shelby Foote
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Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
- Ann Voskamp
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Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
- Pearl Cleage
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We got a Grammy for writing 'No Scrubs.' It contributed to me getting Songwriter of the Year. I was the first woman to get Songwriter of the Year from ASCAP and 'No Scrubs' was part of the reason for me getting it.
- Kandi Burruss
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
- Annie Dillard
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
- Omari Hardwick
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When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed - but very good at writing emotional songs.
- Roland Orzabal
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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
- Elliott Smith
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The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
- Chris Ware
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I love writing thrillers.
- Jed Mercurio
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
- Anne Tyler
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Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
- Evan Hunter
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
- Evan Hunter
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Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
- Evan Hunter
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It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
- Donna Lynne Champlin
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Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
- Michiko Kakutani
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I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.
- Natalie Prass
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I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.
- Natalie Prass
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I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.
- George R. R. Martin
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Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.
- Lloyd Alexander
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I find writing is the most fun I have in comedy.
- Josh Widdicombe
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When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density.
- William T. Vollmann
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
- A. E. van Vogt
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
- Ted Dekker
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
- Ted Dekker
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
- Jeffrey Archer
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
- David Ives
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
- Harrison Birtwistle
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I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
- Anthony Davis
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
- Dan DeCarlo
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
- Edna O'Brien
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A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.
- Christopher Lloyd
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Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
- James Avery
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The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.
- James Collins
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Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.
- John Gregory Dunne
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When I got to university, I would read plays and go, 'But these are about the past. Where are the plays that I love about now?' I couldn't find them, so I started writing.
- Mike Bartlett
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.
- Jamila Woods
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To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.
- Kate DiCamillo
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
- Umberto Eco
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I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
- Meg Wolitzer
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
- Meg Wolitzer
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I've worked with Childish Gambino for so long, so I've learned that from those producing skills - how to really produce music - where, of course, it's about writing, but it's also about combining sounds and styles and genres.
- Ludwig Goransson
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As I get older, I find the things that I thought would be sorted by now aren't. The idea of writing stuff like that for a much older generation was incredibly appealing.
- Ol Parker
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Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.
- Ol Parker
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
- Amy Bloom
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I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.
- Cecily Strong
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There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.
- Alex Turner
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For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
- Rebecca Skloot
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My favourite authors are Jeffrey Archer, for his story telling skills; John Grisham, for the completely new genre he created; and James Patterson, for the way he created a new business model out of writing.
- Ravi Subramanian
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One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.
- Ravi Subramanian
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I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing.
- Matt Bomer
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My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
- Nuno Bettencourt
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What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
- Lauren Myracle
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Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.
- Lauren Myracle
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So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.
- Robert Klein
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I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.
- Michael Jai White
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I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
- Ne-Yo
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When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.
- Joan Armatrading
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
- Karl Marlantes
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For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
- Dominick Dunne
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I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.
- Rob Machado
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
- J. A. Konrath
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I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
- Greg Egan
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I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
- Greg Egan
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I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
- Kevin J. Anderson
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Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
- Mary Szybist
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I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.
- David Archuleta
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To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.
- Adam Christopher
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These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
- Alexandra Kleeman
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For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.
- Angus Young
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If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
- Francine Prose
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Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
- Francine Prose
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One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
- Mickey Kaus
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For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
- Dominic Chianese
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I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'
- Jeff Beck
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Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.
- David Gemmell
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Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.
- Hooman Majd
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To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off - do not do that to a champion.
- Martina Navratilova
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I've always had a maturity within my writing.
- Sabrina Claudio
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Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
- Annie Baker
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My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
- David Rabe
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Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
- Patricia Reilly Giff
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I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
- Kevin Powers
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Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
- Kevin Powers
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I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
- Kevin Powers
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With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
- Terrence McNally
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You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.
- Rajiv Menon
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