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Writing Quotes

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

Life Live Time Past Writing Present

I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.

Writing Doctor Story You Know More

How can you stop writing?

Writing You Stop How

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

Writing Internet Three Empty Email

I love writing music.

Mary Steenburgen

Love Music Writing I Love

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

Gordon Lightfoot

Coffee School People Me Writing See

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

Aharon Appelfeld

People Writing Deep End Holocaust

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

Life Myself Humor Writing Saying

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

Writing First Little Something Read

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

Writing Story Way Tell Spy Fiction

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

Wise Writing Posterity Cannot Only

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Business Writing Who Read Anyone

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

Aleksandar Hemon

Time Writing Start Book Trouble

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

Truth Soul Empathy King Writing You

A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror.

Paul G. Tremblay

Love Writing Book Story Criticism

'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing. Choosing a project is an organic process where I'm taken in by the character and storyline, not the genre, whether fantasy or gritty and raw.

Character Writing Game Process Where

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

Success Creative Writing Acting Want

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Best Writing Chance Care Stand You

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

Creative Writing You Down Know Want

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

Respect Me Writing Look Find Follow

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Time Writing Loved Cook Books Like

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Writing Been Making Stories Before

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

Live Money Wife Writing Journalism

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

Charles Frazier

Trust Me Writing Year Look Find

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