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Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.
The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.
Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.
I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.
I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.