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“I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.”

Writing Dream Jobs My Own One Day Performing More Time Dream Job

Author:Kendall Schmidt

“I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.”

Knows Writing Firsts Stuff My Own Instruments Studios Gears Making Up Demos Accordions

Author:Hunter Hayes

“The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet.”

Writing Mind My Own Perfect Influence Ease Recollection Alphabet Great Influence

Book:The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia

Source: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia

“I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.”

Writing Self Matter Sound Voice My Own Records Serious No Matter What Driving Nuts Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Thom Yorke

“I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."”

Ifs Writing Wells Felt My Own Accord Screwed Up

Author:Bill Hader

“I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.”

People Want Writing I Can Done Stories Pain Suffering My Own Millions Exercise Drink Doctors Manage Prescriptions

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?”

Feels Writing Doe Jobs Moving Fun My Own Expectations Tests Fulfilling

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.”

Want Writing Two Shows Night Enjoy My Own My Family Keep Going Pace Deadline Laundromats

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.”

Writing Wells Kind Ideas Moments Stories Wanted Beautiful Film My Own Perfect Known Environment Saws I Realized Departure Really Beautiful Perfect Moments

Author:Sarah Polley

“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.”

“I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.”

Writing Long Important Stories Fighting My Own Worry

Author:Gloria Steinem

“That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.”

Writing Trying Ends My Own Genre Goods

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.”

People Writing Made Ideas Real My Own Deals Company Century Television Proud Productions Developing New Ideas Foxes 20th Century

Author:Dolly Parton

“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.”

Writing Stories Use Action My Own Clear Finding Yourself Activist My Own Life Textbooks

Author:Gloria Steinem

“When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.”

World Feels Writing My Own Instruments Performing My Own World

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.”

World Writing Sex My Own Fictional Worlds

Author:Zadie Smith

“I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.”

Writing Play Happens My Own Backgrounds Background Music

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.””

Way Writing Able Guy My Own Acting Comedy Expectations Let Me Insecurity Academic Confronting Acting Out

Author:Charlie Day

“I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.”

Writing Mind My Own Issues Heard Sake Active Juice Writing Music

Author:Billy Joel

“I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.”

Needs Writing My Own Possibility Library Smoke Desks

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.”

Writing Growth My Own Personal Growth Inspired

Author:Erykah Badu

“Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.”

People Knows Writing Sometimes Character My Own Mines Versions Minors My Own Life Minor Characters

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.”

Writing Stories Running Certain My Own Knowing Materials Comfort Sick

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.”

Knows Writing Ends Winning My Own Tvs Court Prepared Memoir Expecting Truthful

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.”

“I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.”

Ifs Writing Wells Found My Own Keys Constant My Own Life

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.”

Writing I Can Use My Own Computer Pens Because I Can Pads Handwriting Quills

Author:Mitch Albom

“I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean I Can Ends My Own Fiction Authority Details Surface My Own Life

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It occurred to me that for a long time I tried not to write about my own backyard and my home. I suppose I was selfishly keeping it to my self. And in doing so, I was never able to get out into this incredible wilderness area - by the way, I live right at the edge of the most incredible wilderness area probably in the northern hemisphere.”

Way Writing Long Self Home Able My Own Long Time Areas Incredibles Edges Wilderness Backyards Hemisphere

Author:Tim Cahill

“Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.”

Needs Writing Use Form My Own Notes Impulse Remembrance Diaries

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.”

Ifs Writing Two Night Hours My Own Break Morning Hot Afternoon Every Morning Secretary

Author:John Fante

“I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.”

Writing Said Lines My Own Rap Twelve

Author:Fashawn

“I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.”

Writing Firsts I Can Stories Voice My Own Possibility First Time

Author:Sefi Atta

“I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.”

Thinking Writing Mind Made Country My Own Poet Spheres Imaginative Ohio Uneasy

Author:Cate Marvin

“I'll work by myself for years and then I'll think it'll be fun to et one of my friends like Marshall Brickman or Doug McGrath into a room and not be alone for the writing of the thing; to have the pleasure of taking walks and get lunch together; its sort of a fun process and then I do it and then I get back on my own for a while until I feel the need to do it again.”

Thinking Needs Feels Writing Years Together Fun Process My Own Walks Pleasure Rooms My Friends Get Back Lunch

Author:Woody Allen

“When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.”

Writing Looks Made Seems Felt My Own Periods Accounts Historical Obvious Made It Characteristics Convincing

Author:Brian Eno

“I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.”

World Needs Writing Said My Own Company Nice Dad Lonely My Dad Contrast Me Alone Loner Time Of Need Alone Time Sociability My Own World I Need Time

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.”

Ifs Way Writing Done My Own Prayer Cases Twenties Mischief

Author:Richard Cecil

“So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.”

Knows Writing Book Country Song Stuff My Own Western Chords Ukulele Country Western

Author:John Fahey

“I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.”

Ifs Want Writing I Can Different States Stories Would Be Interest My Own Imagine Approach Experiments Psychological Different Things Relaxed

Author:Kate Atkinson

“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.”

World Writing Trying Littles Dream Reality Black My Own White Reader Understood Absolutes Mirrors Complexes Casts Honestly Hopefully Black And White Dream World Ambivalent

Author:Andre Dubus

“I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!”

Writing Stills Moments Lines My Own Directors Annoying Adam Lit Chicks Brooks

Author:Isla Fisher

“I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.”

Needs Writing Wells Kind Song Left My Own Struggle Pops Impulse Devices Restlessness Concise Irrepressible

Author:Andrew Bird

“I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.”

Writing Years Littles Lasts Song My Own Simple Pops Sensibility Stretching Pop Song Catchy Nuggets

Author:Andrew Bird

“The only time I felt like a weird exploiter - even though I knew I wasn't one - was when I was writing a sex scene between me and my adorable co-star [Adam Driver] in which he had to tell me how much he loved my potbelly. It seemed like a weird wish-fulfillment thing, where I'm directing my own fantasy.”

Writing Wish Stars Sex Felt My Own Fantasy Scene Fulfillment Drivers Adam Only Time Adorable

Author:Lena Dunham

“I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.”

Thinking Knows Writing Stars Stuff My Own Commit Comedic

Author:Nick Swardson

“I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.”

Writing Years Ideas My Own Novel Months Impulse Triage

Author:Charles Stross

“I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.”

Way Want Giving Writing Humans I Can Enough Stories My Own Secret Moral Air Cost Curiosity Love Story Data Infrastructure Scratches Thin Air

Author:James Ellroy

“I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.”

Writing Jobs Next Waiting My Own Ability Comedian Tickets Waiting Around

Author:Wanda Sykes

“When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.”

Writing Character My Own Views Fiction Defense Eloquent

Author:Orson Scott Card

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