Quotes 161 till 180 of 602.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
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I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
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I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
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I don't control my writing - it controls me.
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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
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I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I happen to have a very bad fit of the tooth-ache at the time I am writing this.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XII, 6, 8 -
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
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