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Writing Quotes

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Yourself Writing Gift Story Giving

I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.

Sarah Mlynowski

Love Experience Writing Fall Become

I prefer writing originals.

Writing Prefer Originals

Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to be uncontainable and have to play it again. And I have written songs like that that are just for me. It's like writing a letter to someone you're angry at but never sending it and just putting it in a drawer.

Light Day Angry Me Writing Song

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

Writing Laugh Political America You

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

Gregory Maguire

Life Mind Writing Slow Understanding

A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.

Carrie Brownstein

Good Music Challenge Fun Me Writing

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

Jeffrey Zeldman

People Writing Design Late Always

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

Me Window Writing Perfect Understand

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

History Politics Writing World Find

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

Myself Writing Think American Worst

Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.

Writing Full Some Weeks

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

People Writing Doing Enough You

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Writing Mystery Career First Years

I am baffled by good writing.

Good I Am Writing Good Writing Am

Writing will remain a passion project.

Passion Writing Will Project Remain

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free.

George C. Wolfe

Writing Free You Acting Serving

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

Writing Down Understand Way Mean

A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Good Great Writing Border Back Mine

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

School New York Writing High School

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

Writing Proud Poor Never Being

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

John Patrick Shanley

People Writing Think You True Write

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.

Jonathan Anderson

People Writing Trying Say Idea Read

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

Charles Bukowski

Mind Me Lunch Dinner Writing Night

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