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“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”

Writing Seems Differences My Own Reader Equal Importance Prose

Author:Kevin Powers

“And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.”

Writing Looks Country Culture Community Differences Class Harder Journalist Similarity

Author:Amy Waldman

“My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.”

People Writing Looks I Can Differences Accepting Complexes Photograph Limitation Look Up Framework Dictionary

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”

Way Writing Trying Use Shows Certain Song Given Differences Responsibility Talking Fans Listening Radio Making A Difference Writing Songs

Author:Randy Owen

“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

People Writing Ideas Differences Bored Bores Daydreaming Creativity And Writing Bores You Being Bored

Author:Neil Gaiman

“It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.”

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Author:David Bowie

“To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.”

Writing Littles Book Differences Reader Adults Teens Protagonists

Author:Charles de Lint

“I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.”

Writing Book Reading Differences Structure I Realized Plot Writing A Book

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.”

Giving Writing Real Romance Reading Interest Differences Fiction Fantasy Mystery Particular Reader Horror Science Fiction Genre Criticize Realistic Flavor Realistic Fiction

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.”

Way Want Writing Doe Play Use Sound Differences Pieces Wonderful Students Periods Composer Wonderful Things Indication Duration Punctuation Playwriting

Author:Edward Albee

“I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."”

Writing Persons Differences Worry Careful Slim Slender

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“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.”

Want Writing Real Differences Get Up Procrastination

Author:Leonard Wolf

“All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.”

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Author:Suzanne Collins

“There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.”

Writing Children Book Different Stories Care Courses Sex Differences Attention Violence Reader Adults Extremes

Author:Michael Scott

“I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.”

Knows Writing Mind Made Matter Reading Differences White Letters Folks Reading And Writing

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.”

Writing Art Ideas Stories Past Order Differences Events Shapes Art Is Chaos Acceptable Old Ideas Past Events

Author:Katherine Paterson

“The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.”

People Writing I Can Ideas Stories Song Differences Sparks

Author:Ester Dean

“There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.”

Want Writing Book Differences Huge Activity Conversation Stranger Intimate Writing A Book

Author:Michelle Tea

“But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.”

Writing Wells Reading Differences Down And Coming Back

Author:Frank Herbert

“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”

Knows Writing Eye Joy Imagination Differences Fiction Pure Discovering Travel Writing Pure Joy

Book:The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.”

Ifs Writing Force Differences Acting Personality Pages Good Acting

Author:Larry Hagman

“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.”

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Author:Don Winslow

“I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.”

“I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case.”

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Author:Solange Knowles

“Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.”

Way Writing Made America Felt Black Term Differences Position Perspective Unique Aspect Filmmaker Superiority Lofty Subtlety

Author:Ruby Dee

“I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.”

Writing Character Stories Action Term Differences Mediums Animation Good Story

Author:Michael Arndt

“Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.”

Want Writing Littles Sometimes Strong Bits Difficult Differences Pay Attention Little Bit Claims Academic Blogs Back And Forth Navigate Academic Work

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.”

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Author:Steve Reich

“...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.”

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Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.”

Thinking Writing Doe Night Differences Modern Personality Clubs Former Latter Sensibility Affinity Immediacy Literary Works Night Club

Author:Paul Horgan

“I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Play Film Differences Class Stage Screenplays Time To Think Stage Play

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.”

People Thinking Writing Reality Political Certain Goal Differences Class Feminism Criticism Political Writing

Author:Bell Hooks

“I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds...and the language is a bit more "colorful".”

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Author:Colette Freedman

“The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.”

Thinking Writing Differences Essentials Prose Writing Poetry

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and telling them why you want to go to a particular university. That's probably what you would actually sound like. Then write your letter to the university, and put those 2 versions in front of you, and look at the difference between those 2 things.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.”

Thinking Writing Art Differences Magic Draws Connected Links

Author:Alan Moore

“The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.”

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Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.”

World Feels Writing Different Differences Musician Presentation

Author:Wesley Eisold

“Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.”

Writing Children Differences Education Teach Our Children Educational

Author:George H. W. Bush

“I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.”

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Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.”

“There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.”

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Author:Anne Tyler

“I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.”

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Author:Linda Woolverton

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