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“Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.”

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“It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.”

Writing Actors Goes On Vocabulary

Author:Simon Helberg

“My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'”

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Author:Eliza Coupe

“I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.”

“I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.”

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Author:Jimi Hendrix

“You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.”

Writing Character Song Goes On Scene Crafts

Author:Mick Jagger

“I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.”

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Author:Marc Almond

“People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if I let myself go on about this subject. The more I hear it, the more it rankles, frankly.”

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Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."”

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Author:Etgar Keret

“The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.”

Writing Looks Eye Sex Media Masters Goes On Slave Hunting Lied Bin Laden Excursions

Author:Kola Boof

“Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.”

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Author:Janet Evanovich

“I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating.”

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Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.”

“When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.”

Writing Real Song Inspire Goes On Real Life

Author:Nina Nesbitt

“The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.”

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Author:Teju Cole

“This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.”

Should Writing Stuff Goes On Good Writers

Author:Sune Rose Wagner

“When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.”

Writing Enjoy Goes On

Author:Malachy McCourt

“When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.”

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Author:Malachy McCourt

“You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.”

Writing Stories Goes On Road Trip Writing Every Day

Author:Steve Rushin

“There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.”

Want Writing Book Journey Goes On

Author:Dani Shapiro

“At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking...the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.”

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Author:Leonard Peltier

“There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.”

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Author:Daniel Clowes

“I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.”

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Author:James Ellroy

“Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.”

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Author:Curtis Hanson

“As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.”

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Author:Baron Vaughn

“A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.”

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Author:Sharon Jones

“Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it. Then it would be for the joy of writing it. It wouldn't be like, "And it's going to be No. 1 and I'm going to get rich and go on a book tour and own a library." I don't know the difference between doing what I normally do and making a resolution. And if it doesn't happen, then I'm going to be miserable.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich

“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”

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Book:The Stories of Ray Bradbury

Source: The Stories of Ray Bradbury

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