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“Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.”

Writing Ideas Certain Air Balls Patterns Floats Screenplays Juggling

Author:James Cameron

“Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.”

Giving Writing I Can Effort Vision Worry Pride Responsible Finals Scripts Screenplays Great Effort

Author:Daniel Clowes

“Writing a second book is not like writing the first. I don't mean that every book is different, though of course there's an element of that. The crucial difference is that when you write your first book, you don't have a publisher, which means you don't have a deadline. Deadlines-well. Deadlines put a whole new spin on this writing lark.”

Writing Books Publishing Publishers Writing A Book Authorship Creative Thinking Deadlines

Author:Lexie Elliott

Source: The Missing Years

“Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story.”

Writing Littles Ends Stories Light Dark Rooms Walking Findings Short Story Dark Room

Author:Dan Chaon

“Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.”

Writing Long Stories Novel Rich Affair Intense Short Story

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.”

Want Writing Enjoy Simple Week Melody

Author:Trevor Rabin

“Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.”

Ifs Writing Stills Whole Song Deals Music Theory Solutions Come Up Heal Going Out

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.”

Writing Long Song Long Road

Author:Dean Wareham

“Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.”

Writing Trying Song Embarrassed Personal Things

Author:Julia Stone

“Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.”

Writing Song Easy Difficult

Author:Joe Elliott

“Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going to edit your work. It's so wide open. People just grunt and that's a song. You can kind of do anything.”

People Writing Kind Use Song Sentences Wide Cheating Working It Edits Punctuation Grunt

Author:Mirah

“Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.”

Writing Song Like You Guitar Boring Pops Piano Mixtures

Author:Mick Jagger

“Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.”

Writing Song Football Series Starting Boundaries Crucial Timing Stopping Protective Gears

Author:Christine Lavin

“Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making words rhyme and saying exactly what we want them to say in a short amount of time. ...the primary reason for keeping it short and to the point is to be certain that you're not boring your audience.”

Want Writing Hard Reason Feelings Faces Certain Song Difficult Audience Events Amount Complexes Boring Primaries Songwriting Rhyme

Author:Ann Reed

“Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.”

Writing Trying Littles Stories Political Interesting Interesting Things Baggage Crumbs Thematic

Author:George Saunders

“Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.”

Writing Kind Stories Use Novel Surfing Gps

Author:Etgar Keret

“Writing a story is like giving birth with the only difference that you enjoy the process.”

Story Writing

Author:Self

“Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.”

Writing Stories Lost Worry Path Woods Getting Lost Lost You

Author:Jan Brett

“Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. This has been the case with me. Connections slowly emerge. Like distant landmarks you are approaching, cause and effect begin to align themselves, draw closer together. Experiences too indefinite of outline in themselves to be recognized for themselves connect and are identified as a larger shape. And suddenly a light is thrown back, as when your train makes a curve, showing that there has been a mountain of meaning rising behind you on the way you've come, is rising there still, proven now through retrospect. Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever lost.”

Writing Lost Fiction Mountain Respect Experience Train Memory Connection Sequence Nothing Cause And Effect Retrospect Connect Identified

Author:Eudora Welty

Source: On Writing

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”

Way Writing Stories Causes Novel Effects Happenings Experience One Way Discovering Sequence Cause And Effect Stumbling

Author:Eudora Welty

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.”

Thinking World Needs Writing Character Stories Emotion Masters Storytelling Surprising Stylist Surprising Things

Author:David Farland

“Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mind Risk Dangerous Like You Track Storytelling Puzzles Neat

Author:Andrew Bujalski

“Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.”

Writing Stories Length Single Word

Author:Don Roff

“Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.”

Writing Important Done Stories Consensus

Author:John Dufresne

“Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!”

Writing Trying Long Character Wanted Long Time Try Again

Author:Emily Giffin

“Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.”

Ifs Writing Made Book Might Three Hours Morning Written Finished Every Morning Corrections Casinos Casino Royale

Author:Ian Fleming

“Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction with that place. It's like a marker of your own experience, of that time in your life.”

Way Writing Made Feelings Courses Interaction Good Way Markers

Author:Sean Michael Wilson

“Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.”

Writing War Matter Political Amount Involved No Matter What Operations Hide And Seek Political Writing

Author:Sasa Stanisic

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

Writing Block Writer's Block

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Circles Repetition

Author:Mason Cooley

“Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.”

Writing Art Art Is

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.”

Thinking Way Writing Has Beens Process My Own Break Technique Crafts Helpful Breaking Down

Author:David B. Coe

“Writing about darkness allows me to be a brighter, happier version of myself”

Darkness

Author:Lizzie Slash

“Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.”

Writing Seems White Males Favors

Author:Ron Chernow

“Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art.”

Way Writing Looks Art Different Matter Feelings Force Fashion Overcoming Fleeting Nagging

Author:Susan Orlean

“Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.”

Writing Magic Harder Spy

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

Writing Art Music Dancing Architecture Simile Translation

Author:Martin Mull

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”

Want Writing Music Stupid Music Is Dancing Architecture Stupid Things

Author:Elvis Costello

“Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.”

Writing Self Care Practice Patient Illness Remove Self Care Be Patient

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Writing about New York is hard. Not because memories intersect and overlap, because of course they do. Not because incidents and times mix with others, because that happens too. Not because I didn't fall in love with New York, because even though I was lonely and poor, no place had ever made me feel more at home. It is because knowing what I know now, it's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.”

Love Heartbreak New York City

Author:Kim Gordon

Source: Girl in a Band

“Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person’s cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness.”

Writing Memoir Writing Quotes Writing Philosophy Memories Quotes Personal Essays Essay Writing Personal Essay

Author:Kilroy J. Oldster

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.”

People Writing Helping Understanding Accepting

Author:Alice Walker

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.”

Writing Facts Race Crime Explanation Territory Apology Stereotype Treacherous Generalization New Territory

Author:Colin Flaherty

“Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.”

Writing Doe Stories Racism Love Story

Author:Vivek Shraya

“Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.”

“Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions.”

Writing Sex Causes Bits Interesting Consequence Description Length Describing

Author:Richard Flanagan

“Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.”

Writing Turns Sex

Author:Erica Jong

“Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It's so different - in some ways much harder for me.”

Way Writing Wells Mean Different Known Gone Subjects Harder Surprise Obligation Remove Well Known Freshness Already Gone

Author:Susan Orlean

“Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.”

Knows Writing Mind Art I Can Couple Art Is Overwhelming Funny Things

Author:Walter Martin

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