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“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.”

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Author:David Bezmozgis

“When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“When you write a goal down your subconscious brain begins to more actively think about bringing into your life the people, resources and knowledge you need to achieve your goals.”

People Thinking Needs Writing Goal Brain Achieve Resources Subconscious Achieving Your Goals

Author:Ryan Allis

“When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.”

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Author:Gwen Stefani

“When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.”

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Author:Alvi Syahrin

“When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.”

Writing Actors Novel Hundred Movie Collaborators

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.”

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Author:Jeremy Davies

“When you write a novel, you are alone in it. I wrote that book alone, sitting in airports and coffee shops and lying in bed. But when writing, there is always for me a hope that one day I will not be alone—not in this work and not in this world. It is a bit like that old children’s pool game Marco Polo, where one person closes their eyes and swims around the pool trying to tag someone else. “Marco,” the person with eyes closed says, and the other pool-goers have to answer, “Polo.” “Marco, Marco, Marco,” cries one kid, and the others reply: “Polo. Polo. Polo.” Writing is like that for me, like I’m typing “Marco, Marco, Marco” for years, and then finally the work is finished and someone reads it and says, “Polo.”

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Author:John Green

Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.”

Writing Long Character Stories Novel Pages Long Time Short Story

Author:Ruskin Bond

“When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about how you’re presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it’s all coming from you.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.”

People Writing Novel Imaginary Imaginary Friend

Author:Tayari Jones

“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.”

People Ifs Writing Certain Causes Simple Powerful Pieces Products Type Machines Sells Assuming Copies Software Hardware

Author:Bill Gates

“When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.”

Knows Writing Play Know How Assumption Along For The Ride

Author:Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.”

Writing Ends Use Program Tools Buttons Format Oracles Java Androids

Author:Larry Ellison

“When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.”

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Author:Kleber Mendonca Filho

“When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up ever having a production, but, that doesn't mean that the songs - the best of the best songs - can't be pulled out and put on a CD. And, if the shows that they come from end up happening, then people will regard this as like a quirky little concept recording. And, if the shows don't end up happening, at least the songs will live on in some capacity.”

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Author:Michael Patrick Walker

“When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or a place that has been, or that was - in your imagination. I think that also embodies the American spirit. You are looking for what you can call "a place."”

Thinking Writing Spirit Song Imagination

Author:Justin Vernon

“When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.”

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Author:Marcus Mumford

“When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others.”

Writing Song Understanding Singing

Author:Butch Walker

“When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it”

Ifs Way Should Writing Ideas Song Records Work Out

Author:Barry Gibb

“When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to [be a musician], because of that fact.”

Thinking Writing Facts Song Becoming Musician Supposed To Be Candy Therapists

Author:Anthony Green

“When you write a song, a song has longevity”

Writing Song Longevity

Author:Smokey Robinson

“When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension.”

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Author:Jacques Brel

“When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.”

Ifs Should Writing Song Goal Details Memoir

Author:Conor Oberst

“When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.”

Writing Song No Point

Author:Iwan Rheon

“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”

Writing Said Stories Jobs

Author:Stephen King

Source: On Writing

“When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.”

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Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen

“When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.”

Way Writing Esoteric

Author:James Van Praagh

“When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt.”

Hurt Justice Forget

Author:M.F. Moonzajer

“When you write about people three dimensionally, it inspires a sense of empathy. That would be something that I want people to take away from all my writing, a feeling of emotionality, connection, and empathy.”

People Writing Feelings Inspire Empathy

Author:Sarah Gerard

“When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.”

Writing Real Chance Involved Real Life Upset

Author:Denis Leary

“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”

Writing Poetry Curse Writer

Author:Amal Saleh

Source: Poetry Eyes

“When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.”

Writing Song Stuff Inspire Percent Albums

Author:Kris Allen

“When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.”

Feels Writing Use Honest Aspect Intelligent Comment Loser Articles Frustrated Constructive Troll

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You're going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do.”

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Author:George Saunders

“When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.”

Writing Humans Biographies Franklin Ben Franklin

Author:Walter Isaacson

“When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone else to make the end product essentially. My scripts are just directions for the artist to draw pages and the pages are what is seen. I kind of feel like it's a safety net, you're able to hide behind the art to a certain extent, and in television you're able to hide behind the actors and the production, but with novels, your words are it”

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Author:Robert Kirkman

“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”

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Author:Michael LeBoeuf

“When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about”

Should Writing Heard Pages Autobiography

Author:Elias Canetti

“When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.”

Writing Character Shows Jobs Voice

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.”

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Author:O.R. Melling

“When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.”

Writing Children

Author:Charles Ghigna

“When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.”

Way Writing Wells Heart Light Dark Path Reader

Author:Marjorie Holmes

“When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.”

Thinking Writing Ends Stuff Laughing Guts Flawed

Author:Louis C. K.

“When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.”

People Writing Persons Imagine Thirds Third Person

Author:Emily Gould

“When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.”

Thinking Writing Different Literature Think Different

Author:Howard Nemerov

“When you write letters, or even speak, you hold back, as if to take care not to say anything that could offend, judge, upset. They didn’t think when they wrote on these blank pieces of paper. They were free. Somehow, in honesty, they always could figure it out. They knew they would always find understanding.”

Understanding Trust Letters Free

Author:Armonia Sole

Source: Abelard and Heloise: Youth and friendship

“When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.”

Needs Writing Extremes

Author:Kiran Desai

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