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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.
You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.
One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.
I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.
I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.