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“When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.”

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Author:Jill Soloway

“For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.”

Writing Dream Reading Fiction Balance Findings Historical Historical Fiction

Author:Anthony Doerr

“There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.”

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Author:Billy Collins

“I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.”

“At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.”

Writing May Answers Pleasure Written Findings Disturbed

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.”

Writing Littles Found Waiting Findings Playing Music Waiting For You

Author:Greg Saunier

“Finding the form was really a very dynamic process. I went through a lot of shifting, trying to get it right. Because the writing took place over such a long time, it's hard for me to pinpoint when specific things happened, but basically the final version only materialized in the last two or so years. It was there, but it took me a while to see it and then to refine it after I'd seen it.”

Writing Trying Years Long Two Hard Lasts Form Process Happened Findings Long Time Finals Things Happen Versions Shifting

Author:Danielle Dutton

“I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.”

Writing Felt My Own Worry Produce Needed Findings Hollywood Entrepreneurial

Author:Larry Wilmore

“For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.”

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Author:Alejandro Zambra

“Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.”

Writing Play Findings

Author:Edward Albee

“I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.”

World Writing Stories Doors Findings Other Worlds

Author:Ransom Riggs

“When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty good subject to write about.”

Knows Writing Ideas Strong Subjects Findings Connections Plentiful

Author:William Gurstelle

“More or less the first thing that comes into my head is that some people are always looking for what they want to do in life and never finding it. I'm not one of those people. It has been very obvious to me from an early age who I am, and this has been tied up with creativity, and, specifically, with writing.”

People Want Writing Firsts Has Beens Age Creativity Findings Obvious Who I Am Tied Tied Up

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.”

Writing Book Together Certain Voice Perfect Comedy Written Findings Meetings Video Partnership Translate Written Word Flair

Author:Zach Anner

“I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a walk and spend time outside to clear my mind. I get inspired on these walks, often getting new ideas for stories and finding solutions to the problems that need to be fixed in the draft I am working on.”

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Author:Renee Watson

“I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.”

Thinking Writing Artist Voice Findings Unique Hardest Learning How To Write

Author:Morgan James

“There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice. But I think you could also put it a different way. You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.”

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Author:Billy Collins

“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.”

Writing Actors Roles Focus Findings Attacking Good Writing

Author:Amanda Peet

“Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”

Ifs Feels Writing Character Life Is Certain Three Findings Jazz Oneself Rhythm Compare Arbitrary Life Is Like Progression Finding The One

Author:Francoise Sagan

“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”

Writing Certain Findings Jazz Rhythm Compare Arbitrary

Author:Francoise Sagan

“I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.”

Writing Firsts Levels Findings Computer Program Deeper Grades

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”

Writing Book Ideas Subjects Terrible Solitude Findings Overcoming Bottom Holes Naked Emptiness Finding Yourself Discovering Like Something

Book:Writing

Source: Writing

“Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!”

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Matter Struggle Talent Succeed Findings Get Better Have Faith Display Consistently Great Talent

Author:Laura Kasischke

“By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).”

Ifs World Needs Writing Kind Done Chance Tvs Mets Findings Kicks Requirements Chances Are Deodorant

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.”

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Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel

Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel

“I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.”

World Way Writing Made Different Hard Given Voice My Own Praying Findings Praise Relief Abandoned Fierce Entrances Astonishment Prologue Different Voices

Author:Pat Conroy

“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.”

“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”

“Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.”

Way Writing Mean Faces Findings Embrace Staring Ugliness

Author:Veronica Roth

“Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.”

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