Quotes 261 till 280 of 437.
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Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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