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“I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Hours Four Nice Plans Middle Findings Checks These Days Things To Do Look Up Finding Yourself Pens Wet Marvelous Notebook Auctions Ebay Marvelous Things

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.”

Writing Language

Author:Peter Bichsel

“The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.”

Giving Writing Heart Long Use Age Young Secret Sun Path Sky Advice Wind Blue Trade Paint Forgotten Dust Faithful Realms Shore Once Upon A Time Caress Young Writers

Author:Brian Jacques

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.”

Writing Made Joy Argument Driven Nails

Author:George Will

“The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.”

Writing Sleeves Lace

Author:Walt Whitman

“The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.”

Writing Roles Presses Jew Israel

Author:Norman Podhoretz

“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Book Happens Special Ambition

Author:Michael Lewis

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

Writing Poetry Poet Reading Poetry

Author:John Fowles

“I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.”

Writing Easier Phones Charming Calendars Planners

Author:Ali Larter

“There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.”

World Needs Writing Reason Common One Thing Alternatives Reason Why Novelists

Author:John Fowles

“I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.”

Thinking Way Feels Writing Certain Process Dependent Writing Process Redundant

Author:Brie Larson

“I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.”

Needs Feels Writing Next Novel Prove Next Generation Prove Myself

Author:Camilla Lackberg

“I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.”

Writing Seems

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”

Writing Kind Two Stories Found Dark Absurd Realistic Short Story Hyper Funny Story

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.”

Writing Firsts Moments Use Bars Advertising Journalism Load Truck Workshops Chauffeurs Writing Workshop

Author:Dennis Lehane

“It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.”

People Want Writing Certain Realizing Type Reader Please

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.”

Thinking Knows Writing Crime Tvs Demand Intellect Enormous Soup Spit

Author:Donna Leon

“Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.”

Writing I Can Produce Direct

Author:Frank Langella

“I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.”

People Writing Years Wells Looks Break Comedy Exercise Quitting Breaking Down I Quit Murphy

Author:George Lopez

“I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.”

Knows Writing Decided

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.”

Writing Together Musician Bars

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.”

Writing Looks Emotion Pure Hebrew Sophistication

Author:Yael Naim

“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.”

People Thinking Writing Done Helping Artist Guy Song Order Careers Picks Write Your Own

Author:Jake Owen

“Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.”

Thinking Want Writing Artist Song Careers Majors Brooks Kenny

Author:Jake Owen

“My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.”

Way Writing Philosophy Beautiful Political Relevant Favourite Political Philosophy Leon Trotsky

Author:Andrej Pejic

“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.”

Knows Writing Kind Kids School Causes Brother Band My Brother Outcast Writing Poetry

Author:Christina Perri

“I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.”

Knows Writing Different Next Fun Plans Aspect Filmmaking Exploring

Author:Oren Peli

“For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.”

Writing Firsts Home Hours Morning First Time Get Up Novelists Coming Home Breakfast

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.”

Writing Albums Release

Author:Ron Pope

“Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.”

Writing Years Wells Country Hard Together Guy Found Musician Incredibles Producers This Guy Really Cool Franklin

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.”

Knows Writing Book Maps Ongoing

Author:Tamora Pierce

“After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.”

People Writing Character Wanted Animal Creatures Communicate Dragons Recluse Mythical Creatures Lioness

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.”

Writing Years Dream Remember Next Father Left Five Mines Months Scene Pages Eight Twins Fragments

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Persons Stories Novel Written Thirds Short Story First Person Third Person Thinking First

Author:Tamora Pierce

“If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.”

Ifs Writing Stories Happens Running Able Next Fun Having Fun Anxious Steam

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.”

Feels Writing Persons Two Shows Wonderful Figures Masters Historical Serving Tricky Arcs Historical Figure Two Masters

Author:Vincent Piazza

“Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.”

Writing Smart Intricate

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.”

Writing Different Acting Reviews Compulsion

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.”

Thinking Writing Book Audience Sells

Author:Ann Patchett

“Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.”

Writing Wells Two Pieces Wife Wounds Magazines Teenager Two Things Fluffy Being A Teenager

Author:Ann Patchett

“I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.”

Writing I Can Two Voice Can Do Hours Sleep Lists Magazines Groceries I Can Do It Grocery Lists

Author:Ann Patchett

“In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.”

Writing Turns Alcoholics

Author:Christopher Plummer

“All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?”

Writing Book Shows Easy

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.”

Writing Starting

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.”

Writing Fun Having Fun Writer's Block

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.”

Way Writing

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.”

Writing Trying Wanted Easy This Day Occupation Hunts Sissy

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.”

Writing Cases Minutes Needed Paper Letters Scared Pockets Forty Pens Coming Back Bumps Paper And Pen

Author:Daniela Pestova

“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Law Order Lost Given Watches Audience Middle Crime Structure Episodes Longevity Starks Law And Order Centerpieces

Author:Danny Pino

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