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“The real power of comics is writing as you draw.”

“I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.”

Thinking Writing Stories Cartoonist Illustrators

Author:Chris Ware

“Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.”

Writing Done Past

Author:Cynthia Weil

“As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.”

Writing Book Kids Wanted Fiction Novel Scientist Science Fiction

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.”

Writing Body Artist Guy Stuff Watches Type Scene Noise Unconscious Online Martial Arts Youtube Choke Other Guys Martial Artist

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.”

Way Writing Humans Made Form Song Realizing February

Author:Dar Williams

“The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.”

Writing Trying Song Can Do Impact Best Things

Author:Dar Williams

“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mind May Littles Voice Mystery Effects Easier Profound Who I Am Narrative Abiding Of My Mind Narrative Voice

Author:Gillian Welch

“Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.”

Should Writing Culture Literature

Author:Irvine Welsh

“Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.”

Way Writing Kind Has Beens Book Different Literature Process Written Havens Different Ways

Author:Irvine Welsh

“The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.”

People Feels Writing Trying Literature Newspapers Establishment Scottish

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Feelings Romance Literature Attention Serious Standards Critics Beach Topics Unworthy About Family Double Standard

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.”

Ifs Men Writing Might Fiction Mystery Horror Thrillers Speculative Fiction

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.”

Ifs Writing Book Might Romance Culture Names Forget Lucky Paper Pops Lists Ignorant Spells Topics Lit Fascination Pop Culture Chicks New Yorkers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.”

People Men Giving Writing I Can Left Break Dad Give Me My Dad

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.”

People Writing Different Character Process Voice Rooms Novel Tvs Jokes Translate

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.”

Men Writing Wells Children Book Today America Fiction Men And Women Thoughtful Entertaining America Today

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“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

“No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.”

Knows Writing Book Lasts Waiting Pages Tests Dna

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.”

Knows Writing Years Stories Courses Reading Projects Years Ago Scripts Producers Exhausted Screenplays Screenwriters

Author:Kerry Washington

“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.”

Want Feels Writing Stories Actors Rights Plans Produce Direct Vulnerable Movie Filmmaking Screenplays Baggage

Author:Kerry Washington

“I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.”

Want Writing Terrorism Strife

Author:Lawrence Wright

“I don't write for any particular kind of person.”

Writing Kind Persons Particular

Author:Mary Wesley

“I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.”

People Thinking Want Writing Drama Scripts

Author:Matt Walsh

“Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.”

Writing Left Balls Tennis Serving Throwing Shaving Left Handed

Author:Mike Weir

“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

“I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.”

People Writing Seems Young Felt Stuff Smart Pulling Curtains Exposing Frail

Author:Mike White

“I feel like I know how to write plot.”

Knows Feels Writing Know How Plot

Author:Mike White

“I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.”

Writing Trying Stuff Viewers

Author:Mike White

“The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.”

Writing I Can Darkness Despair Suicide Contemplating Incapable Sofas

Author:Paul Westerberg

“I love to write poetry.”

Writing

Author:Shayne Ward

“What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.”

People Knows Want Writing Said My Family Who We Are

Author:Shayne Ward

“Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.”

World Writing Made Character Easier Backgrounds Hardest Limitation

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.”

Writing Reason

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.”

Writing Courses College

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.”

Writing Form Liberty Luxury Artistic Great Art Great Artist Composites

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.”

Ifs Writing Mean Book Bigs Social Consciousness Pieces Good Writers Small Pieces Big Book Social Consciousness Undertow

Author:Marguerite Young

“I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.”

Writing Grew Grew Up Regions Countryside

Author:Mo Yan

“No person writes to win awards.”

Writing Persons Winning Awards

Author:Mo Yan

“I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.”

Thinking Knows World Writing Littles Stories Today Heard Around The World Urges Peasants Puzzled Irrepressible

Author:Mo Yan

“I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.”

People Writing Emotion Path Feet Ordinary Ordinary People Describing Standpoint Feet On The Ground

Author:Mo Yan

“I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.”

Thinking Way Writing Doe Artist Song Quality Creative Tunes Melody Gifted Auto Tune

Author:Will Ferrell

“There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.”

Want Writing Trying Kind Ideas Different Ends Feelings Might Song Fit Scene Structure Bunch Different Kinds Different Ideas

Author:Ryan Adams

“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

“Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.”

Thinking Writing Self Done Care Song Easy Situation Rocks Ego Musician Consumed Rock Music Hardcore Always Thinking Tripping Rock Musicians

Author:Ryan Adams

“There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.”

Writing Character Levels Tvs Female Deeper Female Characters Sophistication

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.”

Writing Enough Would Be Natural Acting Talent Focused Moron Natural Talent

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.”

Needs Writing Guy Song Cities Taught Yeah Royalty Nashville

Author:Katy Perry

“"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of "I love you very much" or the heart-slamming intensity of "I love you"?”

Writing Heart Language Love You Example Useless Intensity English Language Treacherous Shallowness I Love You Very Much

Author:Florence King

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