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For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.
I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.
Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.
I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.
If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.