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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

Antonio Damasio

Doing You Stop Listen Write Because

Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.

You Find Situation Write Dialogue

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Thomas Keneally

Mind Try Write Craft Contract Novel

I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

Love Music Time Write Same Whatever

I write constantly about everything.

Write Everything About Constantly

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

You Know Want Write About

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

Letters Write Laws Just I Write

More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.

Life My Life Know More Write Than

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Me Say Kind True Never Write

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Stephen Sondheim

You More Write Anything Easier

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

Art People Write Like Refuse About

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

People You Phone Try Talk Write

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

Loneliness Yourself Lonely You Write

I write to feel alone.

Alone Feel Write I Write

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Time Words Story Short You Write

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

Service Writing Artist Write First

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

Alone Best People Write Things Seem

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Focus Job Trying Write See Degree

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Cooking Television Play Write Film

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Feel Walking I Can Write Days Going

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Myself Story Think Pictures Write

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

People Think Write Right Confusing

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Music End More Write Up Honest

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

Stefan Sagmeister

People Meaning Write See Tell Who

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