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“Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.”

Ifs Giving Writing Wells Stills Missing Office Giving Up Dawn Performing

Author:Jennifer Saunders

“In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.”

Way Feels Writing Enough Shows Seems Jobs Law Order Stuff Challenges Scripts Excited Plot In-laws

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.”

Writing Ends Church Ministers

Book:Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

Source: Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

“I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.”

Writing Hands Printer

Book:Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

Source: Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

“I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.”

Writing Trying Persons Easy Angry Lawyer Angry Person

Author:Joe Scarborough

“The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.”

Feels Writing Years Persons Has Beens Lasts Energy Couple Coming Back

Author:Maggie Smith

“I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Would Be Giving Up Tick

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.”

Writing Ends Like You Critics Not Afraid

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.”

People Writing Belief Cry Inspired Overwhelming Confession Shiver

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

“I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.”

Thinking Want Writing Security Security Guards

Author:Mark E. Smith

“Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.”

Thinking Knows Needs Writing Doe Hard Pay Acting Attention Know How Directors Music Is Harder Profession Honestly Pay Attention Instruction Leeches

Author:Michael Shannon

“I write in American slang.”

Author:Norman Spinrad

“I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.”

Writing Years Wish Novel Six

Author:Paullina Simons

“I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.”

Knows Writing Two Certain My Own Knowing Reader Limits Capable Two Things Sensibility

Author:Paullina Simons

“With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.”

Writing Mean Forget Pulling Consumed Forget You

Author:Paullina Simons

“You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Care Stuff Audience

Author:Paullina Simons

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

Men Writing Firsts Young Girl Found Sex Difficult Events Scene Horse Satisfied Get Up Attractive Young Man Playwright

Author:Peter Shaffer

“But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.”

Writing Situation Right Now Print

Author:Peter Sotos

“It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.”

Writing Order Reading Grades

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.”

Writing Book Reading Reader Writing A Book

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Writing is an incredibly lonely job.”

Writing Jobs Lonely

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.”

Men Want Writing Trying Kids Jobs Culture Causes Sound Pops My Time Old Man Pop Culture

Author:R. L. Stine

“It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.”

People Writing Trying Children Book Hard Three Four Adults Accepted Exception

Author:R. L. Stine

“At least I can write.”

Author:R. L. Stine

“There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.”

Writing Black White Infinite Shade Black And White Grey Shades Of Grey

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.”

People Writing Jobs Moving Used Song Parent Rooms Nice Heard Amount Let Me Tiny Used To Be Fractions Really Nice

Author:Regina Spektor

“It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.”

People Giving Writing Kind Real Able Song Three Draws Pops Brilliant Chords Great People Pop Song

Author:Regina Spektor

“When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.”

Want Writing Trying Lasts Brilliant Crude

Author:Regina Spektor

“I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.”

Feels Writing Trying Soul Passion Voice Emotion Transmit True Passion

Author:Romeo Santos

“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

“If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again”

Ifs Writing Today House White Like You White House You Again

Author:Ron Suskind

“I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.”

Writing Reading Directors Screenplays

Author:Rupert Sanders

“I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stories Difficult Doctors Doctor Who Assistants

Author:Sarah Sutton

“My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.”

Writing Conversation

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?”

Writing Doe Self Novel Lists Exploration Groceries Grocery Lists

Author:Steven Saylor

“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.”

People Ifs Writing Stories Young Chance Audience Air Events Television Higher News Cameras Mtv Breaking News

Author:Tabitha Soren

“For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.”

Writing Directors Credit Producers Unheard

Author:Terry Southern

“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

Should Writing Mind Lying Disease Philosophical Hypothesis

Book:The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

Source: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

“One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.”

Want Writing Stories One Thing Victim

Author:Todd Solondz

“TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.”

Writing Different Tvs Mediums Involving

Author:Tom Skerritt

“I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.”

People Writing Bigs Individual Rooms Poet Reader One On One

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.”

Way Writing Kind Pages Straightforward

Author:Zack Snyder

“Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.”

Writing Littles Persons Adults Teenager

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.”

Ifs Writing Together Novel Seeing Believer Obsession Gathering Gathering Together

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”

Writing Voice Existence Lonely Sticks Depressing What You Love

Author:Chris Terrio

“You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.”

People Way Writing Kind Character Shows Easier One Day Rhythm

Author:Chris Terrio

“Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.”

People Writing Believe Character Half China Chinese Fewer Strokes Chairman Mao Chairman Mao

Author:David Tang

“I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.”

Writing Play Written

Author:Holland Taylor

“When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.”

Writing Hard Young Novel Pieces Crafts

Author:Laini Taylor

“Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Trying Chance Easier Scene Pages Screens Stuck Staring Finding Yourself Blank Chances Are Blank Pages

Author:Laini Taylor