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Writing Quotes

Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.

Style Personality Me Writing Voice

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.

Good Writing Doing Acting Want Try

A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

Time Writing Pop Songs Relate About

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

Me Writing Reading Process Know

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

Romesh Gunesekera

Time City Writing You Connection

A lot of writing is thinking.

Writing Thinking Lot

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.

Knowledge Experience Writing You Go

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Hope Freedom People Writing Thinking

The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly.

History Writing Legend Two Line

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

Fun Solitude Writing Lonely Over

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Love Writing Being In Love Lucky

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Poetry Writing Important Excitement

As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

Writing Thinking Look Go Will First

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

Writing Tough Just Directing Too

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Effort People College Writing Become

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

Best I Am Writing Book Reading Then

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

James A. Michener

Writing Problems Army Uniform Done

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

Joe R. Lansdale

Writing Story You Know Burn Want

I've actually met quite a few of my heroes from the past.

People Writing Think Know My Own

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Writing Believe Internet I Believe

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

Writing Book Thought Over Years

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

Melissa Rosenberg

Girl Science Fun Writing Project

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

Good Writing Action You Skill Want

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Music Effort Writing Information

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