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“Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.”

Should Writing Should Have Mental Health Worthy Dull Massive Drag

Author:Caitlin Moran

“Im always terrified when Im writing.”

Writing Terrified

Author:Mary Karr

“If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Character Interesting Powerful Reader Vulnerability

Book:Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015

Source: Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015

“I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.”

Writing I Can Waiting Galaxy Guardian

Author:Stan Lee

“My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.”

People Writing Looks I Can Differences Accepting Complexes Photograph Limitation Look Up Framework Dictionary

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.”

Writing Believe Humans Dies Literature I Believe Human Beings Teach Practice Transformation Encounters

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.”

Knows Way Writing Matter Reason Light Sides Growth Situation Happened Stage Divine Higher Difficulty No Matter What Uplifting Serving Divine Light

Author:Barbara Rose

“It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.”

Ifs Way Writing Jobs Hours Succeed Approach Models Down And Sticks Each Day Airplane Hobbies Schedules Babysitter

Author:Rosellen Brown

“Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.”

Way Writing Mind Heart Used Certain Courses Reading Imagination Encounters Heart And Mind Lifelong Reading And Writing

Book:Three papers on fiction

Source: Three papers on fiction

“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Enough Today Challenges Vision Stranger Theme Heritage

Author:Eudora Welty

“When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.”

Writing Asks Ask Me Trust Me Don't Trust

Author:Anil Dash

“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Book Know Yourself Writing A Book

Author:Shereen El Feki

“Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.”

People Writing Wells Ends Enough Facts Nations Stuff Interesting Autobiography

Author:Jane Smiley

“Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.”

Thinking Writing Remember Written Habit Keep Going

Author:Jane Smiley

“When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.”

World Writing Two War Lines Five Thousand Pages War Of The Worlds Gas Concentration Camps Chamber Second World War Concentration Camp Deportation Gas Chambers

Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen

“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.”

Writing My Own Grief Disease Majors Losing Decided Affected Refuge Mobility

Author:Tara Brach

“Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.”

Writing Children Art Interesting Most Interesting

Author:Enid Blyton

“I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!”

World Writing Children Book Speak Parent Wonder Hundred Letters Get Over Children And Parents

Author:Enid Blyton

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Character Wonder Written Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.”

Writing Bits Television Scene Scripts Live By Chocolate Motto Slim My Motto Tarts Funny Chocolate

Author:Dawn French

“I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.”

People Way Feels Should Writing Song Felt I Realized Writing Songs

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.”

Writing Kind Done Very Good Magazines Experts Copies Editors Popularity Recipes Tested Vogue Bloggers Vogue Magazine

Author:Martha Stewart

“I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts.”

People Writing Heart Church

Author:Jonathan McReynolds

“My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.”

Ifs World Writing Law Father Names Masters Fine Accomplish Tales Feats

Book:Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

Source: Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

Writing Character Inspiration Able Order Simple Offers Succeed Singing Appreciate Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Overcoming Adversity Simple Things Order To Succeed Obstacle In Life

Author:Elliott Yamin

“And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.”

People Ifs Writing Joy Actors Energy Source Pages Draws Hatred Etc

Author:Timothy Findley

“When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.”

Writing Joy Sitting Absolutes Dear Realised Fatty

Author:Dawn French

“Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.”

Writing Joy Great Joy Simply Love

Author:Dawn French

“I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.”

Writing Romance Sexy Edgy

Author:Simone Elkeles

“If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.”

Writing Forget Lonely

Author:Jack Driscoll

“I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.”

Way Writing Two Play Together Natural Personality Complexity Two Friends

Author:Alison McGhee

“I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.”

Knows Writing

Author:Colum McCann

“I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.”

Writing Members Organization Articles Association Profile

Author:Colum McCann

“That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.”

Writing Past Mother Realizing Son Recalls

Book:Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

Source: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

“Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.”

Ifs Should Writing Real Hard Code Programming Comment Programmers Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Computer Programmers Writing Code

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.”

Writing Real Programmers Cobol

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.”

Feels Writing Force Felt Down And Impulse Uninspired

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.”

Writing Years Firsts Play School Jobs Class College

Author:Zoe Kazan

“When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.”

Writing Looks Faces Moving Laughing Cry Fool

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.”

Knows Way Writing Firsts Book Students Linear

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.”

Writing Reading Reader Conspiracy

Author:Carol Anshaw

“Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.”

Writing Years Book Take Me

Author:Ted Bell

“I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.”

Knows Writing Book Ideas Ends No Idea

Author:Ted Bell

“The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.”

People Want Feels Writing Kind Night Hate Party Novel Five Four I Hate Going Out Fabulous Funny Things Hate People Schizophrenic I Hate People

Author:Bob Colacello

“I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.”

Should Writing Morning Every Morning

Author:Tony D'Souza

“Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.”

Ifs Knows Giving Writing Looks Universe Chance Discipline Weight Muse Lifting Lifting Weights Mr Universe

Author:Tony D'Souza

“In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.”

Writing May Has Beens Artist Born Novel Died Exaggeration Titans

Author:Tony D'Souza

“The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry?”

Writing Stories Guy Winning Groups Satisfying That Guy Prestigious O Henry

Author:Tony D'Souza

“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years Together Song Seeing Fit Healthy Shapes Rivers Chords Folds Lennon

Author:Andrew Dost

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