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“I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.”

Writing Kind Character Stories Wish

Author:Markus Zusak

“I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.”

Want Writing Book Difficult Doubt Harder Drag Desks

Author:Markus Zusak

“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

Needs Feels Writing Trying I Can Three Hours Week Theory Like You Distraction Defence Procrastinating Spades

Author:Markus Zusak

“I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.”

Writing I Can Song Perfect Pops Convinced Pop Song

Author:Moon Unit Zappa

“I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.”

Writing Character Stories

Author:Sara Zarr

“I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.”

Writing Long Voice Class Figures Long Time Formal

Author:Sara Zarr

“The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.”

Writing Trying Difficult Reader Please

Author:Sara Zarr

“I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Littles Stills Hard Lost Bits Process Example Little Bit My Way Familiarity

Author:Sara Zarr

“I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.”

Way Writing Wanted Christian Rooms Fiction Impression Publishing

Author:Sara Zarr

“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.”

Thinking Writing Believe Wells Hard Mother Night Games Interest Imagination Careers College Serious Pursuit My Sister Every Night Make Believe Playing Make Believe

Author:Sara Zarr

“I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.”

Knows Writing Kind Guy Song Figures Normal Melancholy Depressing Really Depressing

Author:Townes Van Zandt

“I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.”

Writing Song

Author:Townes Van Zandt

“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

“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Feelings Memories Loss Struggle Meditation Willing Rate Corruption Settling Abundance Vague Dissatisfaction Provocative Zimbabwe Specifics

Author:Jabari Asim

“My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.”

Knows Writing Firsts Real Wanted Jobs Rocks Stones Bunch Journalism Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones Investigative Journalism

Author:Tim Cahill

“It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.”

Writing Air Cows Tropical Blizzard

Author:Tim Cahill

“Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.”

Writing Book Problem Asks Difficult Attention Medicine Passionate Narrative Remarkable Gravity Marvelous Gripping Difficult Questions

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It's not really necessary; there's a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term 'Knives and Pens' to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.”

People Way Writing Different Kids Choices Causes Term Dark Violent Release Pens Knives Finding Strength

Author:Andy Biersack

“Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.”

Writing Heart Stars Voice Rocks Scene Singers Adam Songwriters Rock Star Singer Songwriters Troubadours

Author:Catie Curtis

“When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.”

Writing Trying Hands Make Sense Holding Hands

Author:Meg Medina

“MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.”

Thinking Writing Helping Teaching Students Materials Citizens Integrity Intellectual Depth Curriculum Teaching Students Bravo

Author:Sam Wineburg

“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.”

“I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.”

People Knows Want Writing Two Different Used Girl Know How Grew Grew Up Letters Supportive Being Different

Author:Noureen DeWulf

“I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.”

Writing Long Running Reading Rocks Climbing Hiking Surfing Camping Rock Climbing Reading Writing

Author:Nolan Gould

“To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.”

Writing Years Said Remember Happened Years Ago Seven Seven Years

Author:Matthew Perry

“I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.”

People Writing Wanted Belief

Author:Alexei Sayle

“I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Happens Stuff Materials Down And Notes Phones Come Up Always Thinking

Author:Wanda Sykes

“Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It's less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi knight, The more space I get the better I write, (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write, I need the space to say whatever I like.”

Ifs Needs Writing Moving Space Breathe Buddhist Knights Jedi Knights

Author:Jay-Z

“I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.”

Knows Writing Heart Song Broken Elusive Heart Broke

Author:Adele

“I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Difficult Millions Listening Albums Breakup Get Over

Author:Adele

“I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.”

People Ifs Want Writing Artist Song Talent Managers Want Me Nurture New Talent

Author:Adele

“I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.”

People Want Writing Stills Song Opportunity Forever Doubt Singing

Author:Adele

“If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Years Song Know How Singers

Author:Adele

“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.”

Writing Trying Years I Can Two Stories Race Direct Two Years Take Me

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I only write about what I do, what happens to me.”

Writing Happens

Author:Brownie McGhee

“You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.”

Way Want Writing Self States Order Situation Poverty Constant

Author:Tom Waits

“Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.”

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Author:Craig S. Keener

“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”

Writing

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.”

People Writing Play Facts Film Results Views Watches Novel Creative Direct Creative Work Artificiality

Author:Will Self

“The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to the right or left might place him within the grasp of the priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.”

“Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Philosophy Ought Art Is Paint Photographer Details Painter Ruins Forsake

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.”

Writing Scripts

Author:Phil Collins

“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.”

Want Writing Book Ends Dies Missing Concerned Writing A Book Unfinished Wanting To Die

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.”

Writing Interest Interruptions

Author:Isaac Asimov

“It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.”

Writing Book Play Hate Easier Criticize

Book:Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

“If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.”

Ifs Writing Nice

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.”

Feels Writing I Can Past Song Stuff Feel Better

Author:Amy Winehouse

“Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.”

World Want Writing Whole Song Next Talking Records One Day Sitting Whole World Hopefully Broke Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Bruno Mars

“Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.”

Writing Years Book Talking Successful Risk Mines Senses Being Successful Not Talking

Author:Vikram Seth

“Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.”

Want Giving Writing Jobs Giving Up Economics Paint

Author:Vikram Seth

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