Quotes 161 till 180 of 437.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
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If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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