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“You have to be very brave in that first writing session.”

“Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.”

Writing Wells Littles Book Facts Bigs Kids Used Lost My Own Space Fans Draws Series Comic Comic Book Little Kid

Author:Bill Mumy

“I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.”

Writing Literature

Author:Robert Metcalfe

“I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.”

Writing Trying Book Ideas Genre

Author:China Mieville

“In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.”

Writing Trying Book Names Influence Conscious Checks Prominent

Author:China Mieville

“Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.”

Writing Firsts Book Voice Interesting Vary

Author:China Mieville

“I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.”

Thinking Writing Conclusion Thinker Epiphany Writing Poetry Always Thinking

Author:Chrisette Michele

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.”

Writing Whole Shows Action Jobs Artist Plans Scene Jokes Shots Mood Etc Pacing

Author:Craig McCracken

“I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.”

Writing Stories Political Originals Unexpected Realising Unexpected Places Political Writing

Author:Denise Mina

“I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.”

World Writing Children Two Hard Fun

Author:Denise Mina

“Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.”

People Want Writing Book Clever Engaged Really Clever

Author:Denise Mina

“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 paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.”

Writing Found Paint Rhythm Messy

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.”

Feels Writing Persons Whole Imagination Emotion Emotional Vivid Spectrum Vivid Imagination

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.”

People Knows Writing Mean Lying

Author:Eva Mendes

“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.”

Men Writing Firsts Stories Wanted Stuff Crime New York Grew Late Grew Up Bunch Noir Tights Fritz Lang

Author:Frank Miller

“Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.”

Writing Cutting Fats

Author:James McBride

“I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.”

Writing Going Away Accents

Author:Sofia Vergara

“I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.”

People Writing Play Wanted Musician Inspired

Author:St. Vincent

“What's really fun is to write under different names.”

Writing Different Names Fun Different Names

Author:Tom Verlaine

“I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.”

Writing Whole Hands Bigs Guy Computer Gadgets

Author:Vince Vaughn

“The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.”

People Writing Strange Internet Letters Fantastic Assured Strange Places

Author:Chris Weitz

“But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.”

Knows Writing Long Book Enough Three Four New Directions

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“Writing is still on my slate.”

Writing Stills Slate

Author:Jaleel White

“I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.”

Thinking Writing Development Cinema Elsewhere Inability Dyslexia

Author:Joe Wright

“There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.”

Writing Process Destructive Writing Process

Author:Joy Williams

“It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.”

Ifs Writing Wells Whole Care Courses Wounds Heal These Days Who Cares Fashionable

Book:Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.”

Needs Writing Language Silence Music Is Rhythm My Thoughts

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.”

Writing Language Seeing Scene Visuals Translate Canvas My Thoughts Junkie

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he's one of our unsung heroes. He's been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I'd just like to bring him to the forefront.”

Thinking Way Needs Feels Writing Dream Roles Fans Acceptance Hero Europe Forgotten Recognition Unsung Hero

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.”

Writing Felt Study Discipline Theology Elites Biblical Testament Ruling New Testament

Author:N. T. Wright

“The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.”

Writing Rooms Doors Tough Tough Things

Author:Randy Wayne White

“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Character Stories Body Ability Judgment Mark Hearing Smell Actresses Louisiana

Author:Rebecca Wells

“I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.”

Writing Made Real Seems Stuff Audience Real Life Life Experience Real Life Experiences

Author:Rebel Wilson

“The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.”

Needs Writing Next Stage Ready Studios

Author:Rick Wakeman

“Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.”

Writing Easy Economy Ads

Author:Roy H. Williams

“Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?”

Ifs Writing Use Song Vision Vision Of Life

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.”

Way Writing Two Book Together Process Mark Gaps Without You Two Ways

Author:Samuel West

“I was an A student and I liked creative writing.”

Writing Creative Students Creative Writing

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I just write mechanical things.”

Writing

Author:Barry Zito

“I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.”

People Thinking Writing Bigs Hate Girl Gossip Gongs Gossip Girl

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.”

Should Writing Girl Fun Gossip Gossip Girl Blather

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.”

Ifs Want Writing Book Character Stories Jobs Young Used Girl Reading Adults Decided Series Young Adult Used To Be Gossip Editors Editing Proposal Gossip Girl Cinderella Story

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.”

Writing Character Wanted Girl Passion Sound Interest Rich Air Smart My Friends Doctors Lawyer Filmmaker Gossip Biggest Fear Heiress Gossip Girl

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.”

Writing Years Remember Three Type Grandmother Three Years Electric Florida My Grandmother Visiting Typewriters Ibm Three Year Olds

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.”

People Writing Children Book Young Literature Wish Powerful Adults Children's Literature

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.”

Writing Years Play Would Be School Type Computer Eight Playwright

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”

Inspirational Writing Benefits Dust Injury Marble Dust To Dust Insult To Injury

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Tests My Best Friend

Author:Markus Zusak

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