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“Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.”

Writing Long Values Fiction Limits Paper Increase Writing Fiction

Author:Buddy Ebsen

“Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.”

Writing War Running Action Ready Battle Offers Newspapers Revolutionary Revolutionary War

Author:Norman Mailer

“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”

Ifs Men Way Writing Would Be Wanted Religion Millions Dollars Ridiculous Best Way Pennies Million Dollars Scientology

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.”

Writing Mean Lines Adults Alternatives Swearing

Author:Steven Moffat

“Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.”

Needs Writing Children Given Poor Brain Adults Given Up Reminding

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a record based on that time and those improvisations. But as soon as I started playing music down there, I realised that it was going to be something significant for me.”

Writing Significant Improvisation

Author:Jherek Bischoff

“Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.”

Writing Children Art Interesting Most Interesting

Author:Enid Blyton

“Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.”

Writing Children Three Easy Describing Three Words Byzantium

Author:Mo Willems

“Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.”

Should Writing Children Book Literature Difficult Adults Complexes Bloody Counterparts Children Book

Author:Mark Haddon

“Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of have to just set everything else aside - it's like suddenly getting a temp job that requires you to work 16-hour days. Also just aesthetically, you have to completely leave all of your ego out of it.”

Writing Kind Different Film Ego Submission Monetary

Author:Owen Pallett

“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.”

Writing Littles Done Able Memories Pieces Sitting Zero Sitting Down Trance Trickery

Author:John Hodgman

“Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.”

Writing Feelings Trouble Figures Expression Speech Carrie Posture Lives Of Others Figures Of Speech

Author:Elena Ferrante

“Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.”

World Love Giving Writing Mean Spiritual Form Vision Creative Discipline Compromise Creative Writing Spiritual Disciplines Creative Vision

Author:Aberjhani

“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”

Thinking Writing Kind Made Compulsion

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears. And so, in that sense, I have always been responding to phobias. I am often most surprised by the writing that comes from facing fears that strike closest to home, poems that explore internalized phobias about gender identity, sexuality, and the body, poems that struggle with a question like do I deserve love?”

Writing Home Struggle Identity Deserve Gender Sexuality Phobia

Author:Jenny Johnson

“Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.”

Writing Cutting Fats

Author:James McBride

“Writing for me is largely about rewriting.”

Writing Rewriting

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.”

Writing Play Serious

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.”

Writing Artist Song Magic Figures Capture

Author:Bruno Mars

“Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You need to learn how to be a marketer just as much as you need to get past your influences and develop your unique prose voice. And you can't do it alone. You need a strong emotional support system to help cope with the frustrations and setbacks.”

“Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mind Rely

Author:David Walliams

“Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.”

Writing Firsts Fun Causes Songwriters

Author:Kesha

“Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments of an episode - whether they love it or hate it or something in between. To come up with every moment of an entire season of a TV shows is heavy lifting.”

People Writing Two Moments Shows Jobs Hate Watches Television Tvs Seasons Come Up Heavy Comment Episodes Tv Shows Lifting Great Job Heavy Lifting

Author:Steven C. Harper

“Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.”

Writing Eye Form Objects Demand Pages Letters Occasions Prose Site Solemn Informative Inscriptions

Author:James Fenton

“Writing for the press cannot be recommended as a permanent resource to anyone qualified to accomplish anything in the higher departments of literature or thought: not only on account of the uncertainty of this means of livelihood, especially if the writer has a conscience, and will not consent to serve any opinions except his own; but also because the writings by which one can live are not the writings which themselves live, and are never those in which the writer does his best. Books destined to form future thinkers take too much time to write, and when written come, in general, too slowly into notice and repute, to be relied on for subsistence. Those who have to support themselves by their pen must depend on literary drudgery, or at best on writings addressed to the multitude; and can employ in the pursuits of their own choice, only such time as they can spare from those of necessity; which is generally less than the leisure allowed by office occupations, while the effect on the mind is far more enervating and fatiguing. For my own part I have, through life, found office duties an actual rest from the other mental occupations which I have carried on simultaneously with them. They were sufficiently intellectual not to be a distasteful drudgery, without being such as to cause any strain upon the mental powers of a person used to abstract thought, or to the labour of careful literary composition.”

Writing Art Wisdom Craft

Author:John Stuart Mill

Source: Autobiography

“Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.”

Way Want Writing Firsts Persons Book Different Actors Stage Materials Elements Thirds Bigger Dramatic Pulling Presentation First Person Third Person

Author:Brian Greene

“Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could be giving you different views of the character; the emotional highlights of a moment.”

Giving Writing Different Whole Moments Character Views Responsibility Emotional Theater Fishes Plot Highlights Different Views

Author:Frank Wildhorn

“Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life”

Writing Literature Theater Finding Yourself Nocturnal

Author:Irwin Shaw

“Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.”

Writing Book Able Opportunity Wonderful Share Products Reader Mets My Family Incredibles Restaurants Trends Multitudes Traveled New Books New Places New Products Amazing Opportunities

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Writing for you and about you is an absolute feeling of mingling into the ocean, there is a place where all the water meets, places and philosophies meet. I meet you where sun and horizon meets. I will surrender to you where a brook leaves a mountain! I will wander with you where water bursts out of a rock and cascades into the valley, or where pine meets the sky or where running deer gives a glimpse to a traveller in the distant forest.”

Love Life Writing Feelings Happiness Nature Emotions Affection Ecstasy Mountains

Author:Nazar Ul Islam Wani

“Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.”

Writing Children Stories Use Funny Young Events Particular Jokes Complexes Exaggerated Young Children

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.”

Writing Children Young Hours Youth Reader Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Author:Iain Lawrence

“Writing forces consciousness.”

Writing Force Consciousness

Author:Melody Beattie

Source: The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”

Writing Poetry Tennis Verses Free Spirit Writing Poetry Free Verse

Author:Robert Frost

“Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.”

Writing Sometimes Character Fun Honest Perspective

Author:Willy Mason

“Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.”

Ifs Thinking Men Writing Children Kids Easy Perspective Easier Adults Clever Odd Minorities Old Man Pie Weary Precocious

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?”

Writing Memories Memory Nostalgia Forgetting

Author:Haruki Murakami

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality can verge on the exploitative, he sometimes reveals an unexpected sympathy with dominated women.”

Gender Sexual Violence Graphic Novel Alan Moore

Author:Zoë Brigley (Thompson)

Source: Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels

“Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.”

Writing Stories Drinking Thirst Finishing Insatiable Buyers Quench

Author:Ace Antonio Hall

“Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.”

Writing Chance Second Chance Great Gifts

Author:Doris McCarthy

Source: Doris McCarthy: My Life

“Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.”

Knows Writing Enemy Easier Allies

Author:Louise Doughty

“Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.”

Giving Writing Ideas Play Use Problem Opportunity Language Imagination My Own Childhood Draws Give Me Solve My Imagination

Author:Jack Prelutsky

“Writing gives me wings.”

Writing Writers Ama H Vanniarachchy

Author:Ama H.Vanniarachchy

“Writing gives you a reach to the stars, That reach means there is NO CEILING!!!!!!!!”

Maija Maija Monreaux Quotes By Maija

Author:Maija Monreaux

Source: Lovin A Gangsta

“Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.”

People Giving Writing Stuff Realizing Written Illusion Journalist Illusion Of Control

Author:David Sedaris

“Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.”

Writing Easy Economy Ads

Author:Roy H. Williams

“Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.”

Writing Wells Art Dialogue Crafts

Author:Stephen King

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.”

People Thinking Writing Journalism Editorials

Author:Arthur Brisbane

“Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.”

Way Needs Writing Artist Honest No Money Fees Admission Get Money Graffiti

Author:Banksy

“Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.”

Writing Pleasure Existence Fiction Novel Grew Personal Experiences Writing Fiction

Author:Danielle Trussoni

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