Quotes 401 till 420 of 486.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.
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When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes.
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When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
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When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
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While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
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While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
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While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
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While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.
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With my trumpet voice, I love gritty, plunger, growly sounds. But vocally, I love Anita O'Day - a raspier but definitely softer sound. Part of the fun has been finding vehicles or writing for both of those sounds.
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
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Writer's block is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
Source: MySpace blog, 09 April 2007 -
Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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