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Writing Quotes

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Moment Writing Influence Reading

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Tennessee Williams

Man Writing Honest Cannot Who Wrote

I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.

Writing Performance Song Never Beat

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

Money Writing Problems Giving Check

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Vision Writing Language Speech Way

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

Women Men Woman Writing Book Bad

The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.

Men People Writing Hair World Body

Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.

Music Writing Know Tell Started

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Money Ugly People Me Writing Speak

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

David McCullough

Research Writing You Find Go Way

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.

Myself Writing Singing Voice Play

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

Work Music Girl Age Writing Think

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

Good Words Writing Someone Back Go

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance People Writing Well Songs

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

Writing Trying New Always Out Where

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Robyn Hitchcock

Hope Day Me Writing World Die

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

Sports People Writing Meetings Know

I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

Love Writing More TV Movements

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

Pain Writing Humour Sitcom Months

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

Fred Saberhagen

People Writing Problem Outside Been

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

Writing Start Book End Language You

What I think is important about essayists - about the essay, as opposed to a lot of personal writing that kind of finds its way into public view - is that the material really has to be presented in a processed way.

Writing Think View Kind Personal

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Life Myself People Writing Face

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

Charles Palliser

Writing Interesting Doing Worth Want

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