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“I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."”

Thinking Needs Wells Littles Sometimes Helping Very Good Help Me Craftsman

Author:Donald Miller

“I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.”

Thinking World Real Ends Character Stories Letting Go Draws Asking Unable To Let Go

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.”

Thinking Writing Trying Humans Hard Problem Human Beings Crisis Refugee Migrants Trying Hard Refugee Crisis

Author:Adam Hochschild

“I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.”

Thinking Kids Able Left Enjoy Imagination Solitude Endure Enjoyed My Imagination Left Alone

Author:Peter Robinson

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Stories Use Opportunity Social Deals Technology Media Social Media Traditional Publishers New Technology Proactive

Author:Ian Rankin

“I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.”

Thinking Made Cities Nervous

Author:Donald Barthelme

“I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.”

People Thinking Writing Humans Matter Whole Human Beings Pieces No Matter What Surprising

Author:Lisa Edelstein

“I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale”

Thinking World Needs Whole Might Views Window Scales Whole World Minutiae

Author:Anne McCaffrey

“I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread”

Thinking Frightened Bedtime

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.”

Thinking Want Writing Junkie Outside Looking In

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous.”

Thinking Different Dangerous Messages Acquaintance

Author:Tom Barbash

“I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Might Worry Strange

Author:Anne Enright

“I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Trying Wells Ideas Trouble Please Know Yourself Demographics

Author:Donald Miller

“I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.”

Thinking Writing Soul Audience Conscience

Author:Mo Yan

“I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.”

Thinking Observers Bedtime

Author:Ian Hunter

“I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.”

Thinking Rooms Bob Observers Dylan Antenna

Author:Ian Hunter

“I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.”

Thinking Way Writing Mind Book Film Writing A Book

Author:Charlize Theron

“I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.”

Thinking Writing Trying Looks Long Stills Novel Look Up Mules Greyhounds

Author:Ron Rash

“I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.”

Thinking Writing Girl Difficult Growing Sacrifice Childhood Becoming Expected Womanhood Hermione

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Source Unhappy Unhappiness Popularity

Author:Philip Larkin

Source: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

“I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.”

Thinking Writing Book Work Out Writing A Book

Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz

“I think writing comics is predicated on being a fan - there's no either/or. I'd argue I'm an even bigger fan now than when I started because I know how the hot dogs get made. And I kinda always saw the moving parts. I think I appreciate the good ones more now that I realize how lousy the production process can be, how hard it can be, and how easily something good can get crushed in its cogs.”

Thinking Knows Writing Made Hard Moving Process Realizing Know How Saws Fans Dog Appreciate Bigger Hot Productions Arguing Comic Book Crushed Hot Dog Either Or Cogs Moving Parts

Author:Matt Fraction

“I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.”

Thinking World Writing Interesting

Author:Rupert Holmes

“I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.”

Thinking Writing Helping Order Emotion Perspective

Author:Michael Ian Black

“I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.”

Thinking Writing Matter

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Littles Suffering Bits Difficult Little Bit Idiot Difficult Things Better Than You

Author:Brian Helgeland

“I think writing is a much more personal thing.”

Thinking Writing Personal Things

Author:Patrick Stump

“I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Ends Certain Process Cutting Particular Goes On Spots

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.”

Thinking Writing Political Connotation

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.”

Thinking Writing Memories Remembrance

Author:Hilton Als

“I think writing is one of the toughest things.”

Thinking Writing

Author:Eran Creevy

“I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.”

People Thinking Writing Process Differences Audience Particular Communication Contact Making A Difference

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Talent Great Talent

Author:Shiloh Fernandez

“I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.”

Thinking Writing Hollywood Underrated

Author:Michael Pena

“I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.”

Thinking Writing Healing Definitions Optimistic

Author:Michael Cunningham

“I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Real Sometimes Enough Okay Paradox Burn Out

Author:Maggie Nelson

“I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.”

Thinking Way Writing Mean Littles Art Different Lost Easy Letters Notes Communicate Sentences Stuck Posts Different Ways Pockets Few Words Love Letter Lost Art Post It Notes

Author:Hilary Swank

“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Persons Long Enough Helping Healthy Fame Brilliant Heal Making Money Healthy Person

Author:Alice Walker

“I think writing should be about change.”

Thinking Should Writing

Author:Richard Flanagan

“I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.”

Thinking Writing Stills Happened

Author:Douglas Coupland

“I think writing Young Adult fiction is about writing into the realm of possibility. At that age, people are so much on the cusp between childhood and adulthood, and it's both this time of making decisions and this time of opportunity. I visualize it as a place where there are all these doors that are closed, but not necessarily locked. It's about kids having this choice—not every door is going to be easy to open. Some doors are going to be pulling back against those kids. But I think Young Adult literature is about opening those doors.”

Hope Ya Fiction Choices In Life Author Interview Ya Fiction Author

Author:Samira Ahmed

“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”

Thinking Writing Persons Species

Author:Virginia Woolf

Source: A Writer's Diary

“I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.”

Thinking Company Assets Great Company

Author:Jack Ma

“I think Yahweh is creating something new from our broken pieces. Perhaps he is writing a new song.”

God Religion Healing God Quotes Religion Quotes Healing Quotes Brokenness

Author:Connilyn Cossette

Source: Counted with the Stars

“I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.”

Thinking Genius Sentences Manage Astonishing Single Sentence

Author:Keith Gessen

“I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.”

Thinking Beautiful Language English Language

Author:Sally Potter

“I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.”

Thinking Mind Yoga Bad Things Flexibility Calming

Author:Joyce DiDonato

“I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it.”

Thinking Yoga Workout

Author:Andrew Whitworth

“I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.”

Thinking Able School Turns Bits Steps Study Lessons High School Depth Life Lesson

Author:Megan Fox

“I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.”

Thinking Achieve Easier Jokes Kicks Unhappiness Disappointed Being Disappointed

Author:David Nicholls

Source: One Day

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