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“Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.”

Ifs Writing Years Stories Cutting Subjects Produce Couple Hollywood Edges Cutting Edge

Author:George Clooney

“The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.”

Writing Jobs Boring Horrible Horrible Jobs

Author:Jemaine Clement

“A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.”

Writing Able Wanted Song Records Style Hearing

Author:Ryan Adams

“I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.”

Thinking Writing Wells Littles Abstract

Author:Ryan Adams

“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.”

“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Play Remember Sound Pieces Amount Paper Shocking Channeling

Author:Ryan Adams

“I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."”

People Want Feels Writing Important Book Self Stories Remember Next Interesting Doubt Next Time Self-doubt

Author:Lizz Winstead

“Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.”

People Ifs Want Writing Levels Laughing Like You Smart Jokes Dialogue Make Someone Laugh

Author:Lizz Winstead

“I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.”

Writing Littles Done Kids Song Pieces Paper Little Kid Writing Songs

Author:Chris Carmack

“I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. "You are in this box. That's all you are, that's everything you are." It's a very de-humanizing experience.”

People Knows Writing Happens Running Belief Type Who You Are Boxes Casting

Author:Chris Carmack

“It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.”

Thinking Writing Stills Hard Politics Hero Politician Range

Author:Robert Novak

“The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.”

Needs Writing States Black White United United States Written Indian Asian Latino Caribbean

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power, existing in singleness. It bestirs itself and assumes a determinate aspect by turning into Thinking (Nous, i.e. Mind), from which comes forth the Thought (Epinoia). As soon as thought is born out of the thinking silence, suddenly one has become two.”

Thinking Writing Mind Two Born Silence Aspect Roots Assuming Cosmos Tao Limitless Unfathomable Singleness

Author:Edward F Edinger

“You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.”

Writing Book Done Whole Stories Jobs Found Winning Terrible New Job

Author:Anne Enright

“Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.”

People Writing Song Goal Writing Songs

Author:Skylar Grey

“It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.”

Thinking Writing One Thing Deceit Dishonorable

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.”

Writing Action Built Academic Domain Academic Writing

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.”

“In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.”

Thinking Should Writing Age Mankind Youth Satire Apology

Author:Horace

“Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.”

Ifs Writing Turns Reading Editing Erase

Author:Horace

“It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.”

Writing Country Inspiration Cities Pages Midst Most Inspiring

Author:Jules Renard

“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”

Thinking Writing Wells Soul Feelings Together Expression Taste Wit Good Feeling Writing Well Good Thinking Thinking Good

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.”

Writing Feelings Form Interest Company Clothes Calm Meals Neglect Stable

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.”

Writing Ideas Stories Brain Let Me Obsession

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.”

Feels Writing Jobs

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.”

Thinking Want Writing Book Stories Reading Style Books And Reading

Author:Willa Cather

“Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.”

Men Writing Hands Quality Fairs Accomplishment Practise

Book:Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...

Source: Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...

“Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.”

Writing Self Taught Expression Insight Mysterious

Author:William Hughes Mearns

“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.”

Writing Reason Calling No Reason Categories

Book:The complete prose of Marianne Moore

Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore

“Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.”

Men Writing Forgiving Prose

Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“I think my writing is part of my ministry.”

Thinking Writing Ministry

Author:Robert Fulghum

“A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.”

Ifs Knows Writing Looks Said Enough Whole Universe Poet Understood Wine Glasses Wine Glass

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.”

Men Writing Literature Capable Originals Stealing Entitled Discretion Plagiarism

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.”

Writing Kind May Sometimes Found Conversation Expected All Kinds Eloquence

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.”

Writing May Two Life Is Night White Paper Sheets

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.”

Writing Matter Enough Pens Ink Geese

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.”

Men Writing Conversation Ordinary Understood Method

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

Writing Trying Firsts Book Reading Difficult Originals Trade Productions Destroying Daring Books And Reading Great Author

Author:Andre Maurois

“I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.”

Way Writing Mind Given Subjects Institutions Patient Grim Therapeutic

Author:Woody Allen

“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Sometimes Seems Together Position Bases Wander Strings Absurdity Incongruity

Book:The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

Source: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

“Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.”

Writing Silence Pressure Contemplating Bathroom Upstairs

Author:Robert Frost

“The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.”

Writing Political Purpose Four Historical Enthusiasm Impulse Motive Prose Sheer Egoism

Author:George Orwell

“Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.”

Men Writing Book Cold Stones Flats Graveyard

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha”

Ifs Writing Wells Care Remember Turns Produce Daughter Praise Caring Take Care Spells Dictionary Spelling

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.”

Writing Doe Life Is Lying Energy Objects Draws Cells Instant Shock Viewers Boldness Anticipate Exhibits

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”

Writing Long Book Ends Process Five Pieces Written Minutes Stage Changed Eight Routine Writing A Book Departure Format One Liner Hbo Drastic

Author:George Carlin

“What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.”

Giving Writing Done Gone Fate Modern Poet Critics Wipe Spit Slate

Author:Thomas Hood

“You have to write badly in order to write well.”

Writing Wells Order

Author:William Faulkner

“As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.”

Men World Writing Men And Women Miserable Thrown Faculty Masculine Reproach Endowment

Author:Samuel Johnson

“An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.”

Thinking Feels Writing Art Kissing Worthy Clever Invention Phrases Charming Exquisite Bud Daisies Hue Pun Odor Daffodil Worthy Of Love Art Of Writing

Author:Leigh Hunt

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