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“I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.”

People Writing Trying Heart Wanted Chance Organs Topics Urgency Donation Organ Donation

Author:Mary Roach

“I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.”

Writing Actors Chance Havens Direct Aspire

Author:Stephen Root

“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.”

People Thinking Feels Writing Chance Special Creatures Ordinary Urges Ordinary People Scratches Mislead

Book:How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You

Source: How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You

“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.”

Ifs Writing Mind Self Used Turns Evil Chance Stupid Beats Criticize Stamps Indulge Inadequate Indulge In Epithet

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.”

People Ifs Writing Stories Young Chance Audience Air Events Television Higher News Cameras Mtv Breaking News

Author:Tabitha Soren

“Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Trying Chance Easier Scene Pages Screens Stuck Staring Finding Yourself Blank Chances Are Blank Pages

Author:Laini Taylor

“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.”

“The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.”

Giving Writing Long Play Actors Chance Pieces Long Time Give Me Comic Dramatic Facets

Author:Linda Lavin

“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

“At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.”

Writing Heart Chance Issues Risk Effects Honest Core Being Honest Assumption Pushing Exploring Intrigue Take A Chance Taking Risks Push Yourself

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.”

Writing Art Seems Chance Chances Are

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.”

People World Feels Writing Chance Struggle This World Disappointment Obstacles Second Chance

Author:El DeBarge

“When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.”

Needs Writing Grows Chance Tradition Protection Makers Merry Defiance Seeming Walt Butchers Bakers

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.”

People Knows Giving Writing Book Chance Answers Give Me Give Me A Chance

Author:Philip Yancey

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