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Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.

Michael Connelly

People Me Writing Celebrate Book

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

Job People Writing Back My Own Mean

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

Trisha Yearwood

Creative Writing Student Liked

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

Writing Direction Learn Help You

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Life Writing My Life Now Paint Been

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

Writing Book Think You Sitting Get

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

Harrison Birtwistle

Work Ideas Writing Moments Sometimes

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

Me Writing Thinking Help You More

I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at my picture on the back of the book, they don't see someone who looks like their mother.

Mother Style Writing Book Picture

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Life Writing My Life Worry Too Much

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

Art Writing Think Up Being Happens

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

Myself School Me Writing Easy Way

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

People Writing Book Tough Horse

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Great Best Money Writing Think

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

Good Yourself Writing You Finish

I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.

Roger Rosenblatt

Love Hate Day Me Writing Think

I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids do compartmentalize, and they're hopefully able to see it from a safe place of their own lives and, through that, learn something about empathy.

Jacqueline Woodson

Empathy Writing World Think Learn

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Good People Writing Reading You

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

Time Poetry Writing Used Dreaming

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Life Poetry Writing Think Thought

I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a list of things I need to get done every day. Sometimes it's just mixing, sometimes it's actually writing, sometimes it's writing, recording, and mixing. It all depends on what is necessary that day.

Morning Coffee Day Writing Wake Up

If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.

Andre Dubus III

Yourself Writing Think Care Advice

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'

Life Work I Am Me Writing Burn

For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Me Writing Treat Story Short Magic

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