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Writing Quotes

I enjoyed writing in school. I don't know that I was all that good at it in school. I worked at it later. I feel comfortable writing now. I enjoy writing now. I suspect, like most college students, I viewed writing then to be more tedious.

Good School College Writing Enjoy

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

William E. Simon

Writing Mercy Important Greater

As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a writer I greatly admired than as a teacher. As for other writers, I think it's safe to say that my work has been and continues to be influenced to one degree or another by every writer whose work I love and admire.

Work Love Teacher Writing Think Say

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'

Life Creative Writing Write Just

One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist.

Myself Trust People Me Writing Help

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.

Howard Jacobson

People Me Writing Think Thinking

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

Writing Thinking Write First Image

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

Art People Writing World You Look

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

Life Yourself Writing Story You Own

I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

Morning Myself Sleep Writing Song

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

Fear Writing Emotional Anything Come

I've always been writing.

Writing Always Been

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

Billy Strayhorn

Friend Effort Writing Train Born

I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.

Good Girl Writing Talking Remember

Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I wanted.

People Writing Book Play Shape Role

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

Life Writing You Things Happen Way

I wrote 'Zeuglodon' on a whim. I found myself writing the voice of an 11-year-old girl. I don't know why.

Girl Myself Writing Voice Know Why

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.

Life Positive I Am Writing Book Way

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.

Michael O'Brien

Work Good Art Creative Writing Long

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Myself Me Writing Emotions Touch

I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.

Music Time Writing Feel Early Saw

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

Melissa Rosenberg

Moon Writing World Think Better New

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

Stress People Writing Book Feel You

I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.

Crescent Dragonwagon

Good Writing Possibilities Healthy

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