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“I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.”

Writing Facts Regret Mechanic Writing Music

“Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.”

Want Writing Fate Risk Possibility Tragedy Add Preparation Sequels Likelihood

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating”

Writing Seems Empathy Fascinating Jane Austen Humdrum

Author:Mark Haddon

“Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.”

Should Writing Children Book Literature Difficult Adults Complexes Bloody Counterparts Children Book

Author:Mark Haddon

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

People Writing Ideas Differences Bored Bores Daydreaming Creativity And Writing Bores You Being Bored

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.”

Writing Different Term Practice Teaching Activity Aspect Criticism Separation Visuals

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.”

Writing Today Remember Poetry Easier Harder

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”

People Knows Writing Looks Different Tree Sky Streets Granted Beach Shops Oaks Oak Tree

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.”

Ifs Writing Bigs Funny Literature Novel Fate Serious Battle Awards Doomed Award Winning Winning Awards

Author:Neil Gaiman

“There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.”

Needs Writing Kind May Use Tools Code Native Publish Iphone Apps Ipads Blackberries Browsers

Author:Jim Balsillie

“I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.”

Writing Able Dies Goes On Function Obsession

Author:Farley Mowat

“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.”

Writing Stuff Fiction Science Fiction

Author:Neil Gaiman

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”

Thinking Writing Years Play Happens Waiting Pieces Expression And Love Thirty Sincere Composer Thirty Years

Author:Charles Mingus

“I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.”

Want Should Writing Play Together Originals Musical Collections

Author:Neil Gaiman

“anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.”

Writing Natural Common Society Subjects Theory Evolution Mechanism Selection Natural Selection Descent Speciation

Author:Ernst Mayr

“I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.”

People Feels Writing Would Be Wanted Literature Comedy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.”

Knows Writing Littles Kids Easy Stuff Black Farms Grandfather Little Kid Spiders My Grandfather Widows Boyhood Black Widow

Author:Kary Mullis

“We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.”

Writing Kind Song Voice Calling Singing Tradition Passing Passings Accents Writing Songs Irish Accent

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.”

Writing Realizing Decision Poor Week Example Design Products Notebook

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”

“Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.”

Ifs Writing I Can Waiting Areas Backgrounds Ritual Airports

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.”

Ifs Writing Today Effort Novel Prose Concentrating Efforts Wasted

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Firsts Made Book Reading Wonderful Reader

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.”

Way Writing Book Literature Can Do Writing A Book

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.”

Writing Kind Ideas Kids Wanted Process Lonely Decades Teenager Things To Do Blogging

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.”

Thinking Writing Kind Two Book Order Views Novel Point Of View Novelists Suspects

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.”

Writing Believe Book Enough Stuff Stupid Substitutes Writing A Book Blogging

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'”

Writing Handful Blogs Dinosaurs Entry Blogging February Grumpy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.”

Way Writing Firsts Book Stories Remember Realizing Obsessed Narnia

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”

Needs Writing Matter Stories Written Honestly Not Sure

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.”

Writing Self Childhood Expression Great Love Self Expression Music Love New Experiences

Author:Edgar Winter

“Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.”

Writing Believe Inspiration Novel Building Wall Construction Bricks

Author:Frank Yerby

“I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.”

Writing Process Enjoy Fronts Bottom Chairs Torment Typewriters

Author:Caryl Rivers

“I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.”

Thinking Writing Behinds Week Couple Accounting Towels

Author:Muriel Siebert

“It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.”

Writing Mean Book Voice Style Fine Personality Marketing Contradiction Leap Aggressive Scream Writing Style

Author:David Bergen

“The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Song Choices Car Bridges Makers Dreamer Planners

Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton

“It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.”

Writing Book My Own Fate Paid Print Freak

Author:Iain Sinclair

“When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.”

Knows Writing Critics Sublime

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.”

Ifs Writing Book Different Enough Wonderful Havens Sells Addiction Something New Publish Superb

Author:Charles Adams

“Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.”

Want Writing Ideas Facts Accepting Backgrounds Despite

Author:John Amos

“You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.”

Giving Writing Whole Jobs Form Song Painting Productions Architecture Landscape Atmosphere Intimate Ambiance

Author:Keren Ann

“Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.”

Ifs Writing May Song Reading My Own I May Not Be

Author:Lily Allen

“If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.”

Ifs Writing Levels Teaching Intellectual Muscles

Author:M. H. Abrams

“My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?”

Ifs Writing Mind Book Turns Next Pleasure

Author:Yann Martel

“If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.”

Ifs Writing Fiction Reader Genre

Author:Yann Martel

“Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Writing Trying Mind Heart Has Beens Ideas Reality Able Language Ties Receiving Divorced Contradictory

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“The walls are the publishers of the poor.”

Writing Poor Wall Publishers

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.”

Ifs Writing Artist Song Girl Female Apples If I Could Female Artists Amazing Song

Author:Jennifer Damiano

“I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.”

People Want Writing Black Land Hanging Out Farms Colony Carolina Acres North Carolina Cabins All Black Tractors Nudists

Author:Zach Galifianakis

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