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“When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.”

People Writing Ideas Young Fantasy Forever Lakes Discovering Joyous

Author:Laini Taylor

“I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.”

Writing Beats Studios

Author:Obie Trice

“I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.”

Giving Writing Joy Reader Conscience

Author:Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.”

Writing Has Beens Order Language Fallen Loser

Author:Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.”

Writing Law Grace Saved Saved By Grace

Author:Randall Terry

“Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.”

Writing Soul Might Guy Song White Singing Bottom Guts Bob Dylan Writing Songs Lennon Springsteen

Author:Robin Thicke

“Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.”

People Writing Trying Christian Spiritual Song Levels Fans Deeper Contemporary Writing Songs Christian Music Contemporary Christian

Author:Ryan Tedder

“It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.”

Writing May Important Book Come Up

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

Writing Trying I Can Different Matter Character Wonderful Offers Female Stronger Hats Gray Female Characters Gray Matter

Author:Tate Taylor

“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.”

Writing Home Seems Wanted Film Boys Taken Needed Hey Visuals Screenplays Mississippi Hometown Just Saying

Author:Tate Taylor

“I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?”

Writing Years I Can Whole President Mets Hundred Whole Life Housekeepers

Author:Tate Taylor

“There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.”

Writing Decision Powerful Information Scene Tough Edits Tough Decisions

Author:Tate Taylor

“Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.”

People Writing Artist Song Fun Realizing Music Is Excellent Hobbies Writing Songs

Author:Tila Tequila

“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”

Knows Writing Trying Heart Real Character Relate Performers Being Real

Author:Uma Thurman

“And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.”

Ifs Writing Care Interesting Havens Blogs

Author:Uma Thurman

“It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.”

Thinking Writing Years Long Song Next Cases Months Bunch

Author:Keith Urban

“I tend to write better when I'm not touring.”

Writing Touring

Author:Keith Urban

“I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.”

Writing Song Enjoy Situation Busy Bunch Down Time

Author:Kate Voegele

“I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.”

People Writing Believe Has Beens Important Facts Able Song Records Songwriters Personal Experiences

Author:Kate Voegele

“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.”

Thinking Writing Art Facts Artist Song Interest Natural Listening Grew Kings Grew Up Inspired Guitar Songwriting Writing Songs Playing Guitar

Author:Kate Voegele

“My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.”

People Writing Whole Song Goal Can Do Ability Knowing Records Inspire Relate Just One Songwriters

Author:Kate Voegele

“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.”

Writing Firsts Song Records Written Tvs First Time Universal Albums Bus Promoting Living On Writing Songs Personal Experiences

Author:Kate Voegele

“The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.”

Writing Voice Heard Television Majors Radio Newspapers

Author:Galina Vishnevskaya

“When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.”

People Writing Would Be Film Actors Careers Industry Starting Writing Life Film Industry Starting To Write

Author:James Franco

“I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.”

Writing Book Done Too Much Materials Port

Author:Jack Vance

“I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.”

Writing Felt Sells

Author:Jack Vance

“Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.”

Thinking Writing Wells Backgrounds

Author:Jack Vance

“The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.”

Way Writing Scene Mood

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.”

Writing Trying Stories Able Actors Stuff One Thing Draws Monsters Robots Funny Story

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.”

People Writing Book Hate Surprise Things To Do Mail Surprise Me Better Things To Do Hate Mail

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.”

Writing Wanted Perfect Novel Myth Goddess Fragments Springboards

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Character Stories Wanted Next Strong Novel Female Decided Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.”

Want Writing Political Didactic

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.”

People Writing Long Lines Folks Newspapers Ran Long Lines

Author:Sam Wyly

“I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.”

Writing Important Used Winning Hours Rooms Race Four Coffee Used To Be Breakfast Steady Days Off Pajamas Slow And Steady

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.”

Needs Writing I Can Hours My Own Masters Couple Solitude Computer Chapters

Author:Stuart Woods

“I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.”

People Way Writing Book Character Fall Enjoy Deals Novel Rich Tragedy Historical Falling In Love Driven Contemporary Triumph Wrong Words

Author:Susan Wiggs

“Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.”

Writing Matter Attention Practice Talent Instruments Crafts

Author:Susan Wiggs

“Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!”

Want Writing Wells Shows Guy Stuff Sides Loss Love Loss

Author:Tristan Wilds

“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 like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!”

Writing Names My Own Draws

Author:Alexander Wang

“I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Novel Sitting Years Ago Sitting Around

Author:Amy Waldman

“And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.”

Writing Looks Country Culture Community Differences Class Harder Journalist Similarity

Author:Amy Waldman

“I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.”

Writing Found My Own Powerful Sitting Praise Tables Finished Coffee Over It Justification Twins Weeping Colony Puzzling Coetzee

Author:Amy Waldman

“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.”

Writing Years Firsts Character Stories Would Be Imagination Fiction Novel Subjects Skills Research Useless Articles Reporters My Imagination Profile

Author:Amy Waldman

“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

Writing Mean Character Action Turns Reading Imagination Lines Deals Fiction Paradox Fiction Writing

Author:Amy Waldman

“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.”

Way Writing Made Use Memories Fiction Happened Needed My Family Meaningful Novelists Mature Writing Fiction

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”

Writing Firsts Children Different Would Be Young Used Found Difficult Four Baby Months Accomplish Accomplish Nothing

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.”

People Writing Play Wanted Song Bus

Author:Chely Wright

“I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.”

Writing Grammy

Author:Chely Wright

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