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Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing.

Michael Cristofer

New York Writing Long Acting Play

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Age Writing Poverty Acting Young Up

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

Me Writing Personal Write Thing

Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.

Money Writing Way More Mean Sense

Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

Writing Chance Want Poems Construct

When I'm writing, my mood is very good - and I love life.

Life Love Good Writing Love Life

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

Music Writing You Important Write

I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.

Family Time Best Writing Book Hands

Writing a book is not easy.

Writing Book Easy

When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.

Elizabeth McCracken

Poetry College Writing Short Back

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

Job School College Writing Year Out

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Writing Action Loved Die Lost Hard

I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Live People Me Writing World Think

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

Stephen R. George

Writing Horror Started Novel

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

Time People Me Writing Strong Long

I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years.

Nature Good Great People Writing

My writing is inspired by where I come from, where I am today, and where I hope to go some day.

Jacqueline Woodson

Today Hope Day I Am Writing Go

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Good Writing Song Easy Difficult

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

Experience Yourself Writing Help You

I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but I don't think of myself necessarily as a dark-humored person. I like having a lot of fun.

Love Myself Fun Writing Think Dark

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.

Adriana Trigiani

Life Love Talent Me Writing Gift

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

Sleep Me Writing I Can Write Kid

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

Job Step Writing Society Book Meet

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.

Ideas Writing Process Year Down Try

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