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I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

Blue People Writing Story Short Go

For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.

Myself Sleep Writing Start Thinking

I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I live by impulse. I'm totally ill-suited to writing history books.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Live Character History Writing End

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

Words People Writing Down Pictures

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

Moment School Writing Remember Where

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.

Writing Thinking Doing Acting Just

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

Ride Cool Writing Decisions Result

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

Good Writing Voice Think Moments

As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.

Life Truth Beginning Me Writing End

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

Elizabeth Daily

Work Love Writing Singing Movies

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Life Writing My Own Own Expression

One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader when I was writing about an artist. How can you describe the beauty of Emmylou Harris' voice without hearing it, the sensual lilt of a Duane Allman guitar solo without actually hearing it, or the growl of Johnny Rotten without hearing it?

Beauty Great Writing Voice Guitar

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Time Writing Inspiration Get Rather

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science Writing Think Academic Used

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

Ravi Subramanian

Mind Writing Disaster Recipe Film

What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office, and they say, 'Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?'

Robert Ben Garant

Good People Writing Game Think You

A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially.

Laura van den Berg

Writing Feel Magic Routine Play Say

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Music Relax Writing Editing Need

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

Writing Think Year Wall Last Our

You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.

Poetry People Writing You Know Say

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

Myself Ideas Thoughts Writing I Can

Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.

Live History Past People Writing

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Good Luck Good Luck Writing Short

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

Curtis Mayfield

Respect Writing World Feel Enough

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