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“I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.”

Feels Writing Sometimes States Song Lost Constant Translations Lost In Translation

“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”

Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Character Song Term Creating Theme Visuals Transfers Soundtracks Creating Characters

Author:Marisha Pessl

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Running Romance Left Sound Rooms Typewriters

Author:Gene Fowler

“Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.”

Writing Sometimes Play Seems Roles Revision

Author:Ellen Hunnicutt

“Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Panic

Author:Sara Paretsky

“I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.”

Knows Writing Sometimes Levels

Author:Josh Radnor

“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Eye Able Hate Waiting Sticks Convinced Pencils

Author:Ron Rash

“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Enough Helping Found Hours Dinner Productive Enough Time Sneaking Up

Author:Michael Crichton

“If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Loss Results Office Paper Messages Consequence Response Access Commit Magazines Boss Reporters Candor

Author:Ron Suskind

“I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!”

Writing Littles Long Sometimes Lasts Remember Song My Own Rooms Broke Girlfriend Surround Broke Up Cocoons Playlists

Author:Tristan Wilds

“I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?”

People Thinking Writing Sometimes Kids White Rooms Degrees Window Machines Silent Corners Noise Bags Trash White Noise

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.”

Writing Sometimes Seems Happens Situation Fronts Pages Melancholy

Author:Mike White

“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Sometimes Hard Bigs Happens Song Next Interesting Focus Bridges Sections Bass Sketchy

Author:Ryan Adams

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”

Ifs Needs Writing Sometimes Grows Bits Wonder Our Lives Heard Wake Up Make Sense Visible Desperate Endeavor

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Desire Practice Available Separation Shade Acceptable Splits Entitled Avoiding Confusing Ambiguity Patents Splitting Artificiality Infinitive

Book:Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay

Source: Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay

“Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.”

Writing Sometimes Hard Fun Advice Hard Work Chairs Elsewhere Backsides

Author:Lois Lowry

“LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.”

“Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.”

Writing I Can Different Sometimes Use Brain Paint

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.”

Writing Sometimes Emotional Difficulty Painful Details I Realized Therapy Sooner Or Later Autobiography Explaining Parts Of Life

Author:Jenni Rivera

“I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.”

“Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.”

Writing Sometimes Song Waiting Delivery Writing Songs

Author:Alex Turner

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Character Wonder Written Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.”

Way Writing Sometimes Might Simple Fragments Simple Ways

Author:Bill Viola

“I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.”

Writing Sometimes Fun Social Stuff Enjoy Voice My Own Records Standing Lonely Demos Standing Alone So Lonely

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.”

Knows Writing Littles Sometimes Bits Emotion Little Bit Prose Purple

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.”

Writing Sometimes Rage

Author:Amy Clampitt

“Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on its flood, you must give yourself rewards. "When I write this chapter, I can call my boyfriend." "When I finish one page more, I can get an ice cream cone." "If I write this section, I'll find a check in the mail."”

Ifs Giving Writing Firsts I Can Sometimes Hard Pages Rewards Checks Ice Mail Chapters Flood Cream Sections Ice Cream My Boyfriend Cones Ice Cream Cones

Author:Sophy Burnham

“Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.”

Writing Sometimes Done Enough Research Block Signals Writer's Block

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at it again.”

Writing Looks Sometimes Done

Author:Gideon Glick

“Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.”

People Writing Sometimes Scene Bigger Episodes Really Great Bigger Picture

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Play Remember Sound Pieces Amount Paper Shocking Channeling

Author:Ryan Adams

“Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.”

Writing Kind May Sometimes Found Conversation Expected All Kinds Eloquence

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Sometimes Seems Together Position Bases Wander Strings Absurdity Incongruity

Book:The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

Source: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Lasts Born Mines One Day Understood Praise Affection Delight Sentences Immortality Understand Me True Family

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.”

Writing Sometimes Empty Rhythm Fury

Author:Stephen Spender

“I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.”

Way Writing Book Sometimes Found Majors Exciting Editing Manuscripts Revision Fresh Start Shredding

Author:William Manchester

“Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.”

People World Feels Writing Real Sometimes Leap Imaginative

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.”

Writing Mean Made Sometimes Moving Culture Literature My Own College Appreciate India Importance Moved Indian American Indian Moving Away Appreciate You

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.”

Men Writing Ideas Sometimes Feelings Today Environment Fantastic Hardy Unreality

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”

Writing Sometimes Good Writing

Author:James Gandolfini

“Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.”

Writing Sometimes Stuff Nice Come Up Melody Hunters Really Nice Nice Day Forte

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.”

People Want Writing Sometimes Remember Difficult Voice Steps Opinion Appreciate Appreciate People

Author:Veronica Roth

“Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.”

Knows Writing I Can Sometimes Opinion Source Judgment Court Fortune Disagree Colleagues Suggestions Good Fortune Good Judgment

Author:Antonin Scalia

“He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.”

Should Writing Sometimes Age Justice Taste Perfection Aim Refuse Suits Posterity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Feels Writing Sometimes Hard Enough Play Song Sleep Advice Higher Musician Dating Aim Instruments Feel Good About Yourself Cake Offense Bakers Aim High Want To Sleep

Author:Julie Klausner

“Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.”

Men Writing May Sometimes Clear Degrees Endure Forgotten Fortunate Alchemy

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."”

Men Giving Should Writing Sometimes Voice Four Terrible Giving Up Cat Critical Sentences Coffee Awake Pet Dragons Eggs Breakfast Clicks Best Times Disclosure

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.”

People Ifs Want Writing Mind Different Sometimes Helping Actors Voice Different Voices

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

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