Writing Something Quotes
44 quotes by 43 authors
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Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not…
— Meg Cabot
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For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
— Danny Elfman
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If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the…
— Louis L'Amour
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If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.
— Steven Galloway
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The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully…
— Harlan Ellison
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As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I…
— Alanis Morissette
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What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel is supposed to…
— Christopher Nolan
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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
— John Irving
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It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.
— Thom Yorke
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's…
— Maurice Sendak
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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain…
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and…
— Robert Caro
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I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character…
— Mark Millar
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Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing…
— Charles Dickens
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You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten…
— Leonard Bernstein
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after…
— Ian Mcewan
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and…
— Jess Walter
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I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what…
— Roscoe Mitchell
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares…
— Adam Pascal
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The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and think, I am…
— Christopher Durang
Who Wrote These Writing Something Quotes
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