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“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.”

Writing Firsts Long Art Done Enough Song Painting Long Time Pursue Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Jason Newsted

“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Wells Mean I Can Important Book Reason Done Happens Enjoy Written Huge Amount Planning Relax Chapters Outlines

Author:R. L. Stine

“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

“There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Done Used Tomorrow Late Sitting Ass Painter Phrases Muse Uncles Grind Showing Up Raphael

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.”

Writing Done Existence Novel Written Ass Chairs

Book:Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

Source: Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

“I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.”

Ifs Needs Writing Stills Done Wish Watches Crosses Luck Filled Fingers Good Luck Wish You Sharks Good Writing Lagoons

Author:Margaret Atwood

“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.”

Writing Book Done Too Much Materials Port

Author:Jack Vance

“Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.”

Writing Done Past

Author:Cynthia Weil

“Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.”

Thinking Writing Self Done Care Song Easy Situation Rocks Ego Musician Consumed Rock Music Hardcore Always Thinking Tripping Rock Musicians

Author:Ryan Adams

“I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?”

Ifs Want Writing Wells Long Done Might Wanted Causes Decided Sells

Author:Janet Fitch

“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”

Source: Killosophy

“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

Men World Way Writing Wells Looks Done Wanted Difficult Leap Imaginative

Author:Anthony Minghella

“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 get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.”

Needs Writing Done Answers Phones Get Up Email Up Early Cheques

Author:Martin Parr

“Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.”

Writing Done Film Saws I've Learned

Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.”

Writing Sometimes Done Enough Research Block Signals Writer's Block

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at it again.”

Writing Looks Sometimes Done

Author:Gideon Glick

“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

“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

“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

“Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.”

Writing Done Inspiration Skills Spring Genes Goddess

Author:Leonard Bishop

“The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”

Ifs Men World Writing Doe Done He Man Ought Mere Critics Doers

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.”

Writing Firsts Two Done Play Used Night Song Process Studios Piano Hobbies

Author:Kate Bush

“When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive.”

Ifs World Writing Done Girl Boys Sloppy Cursive Misspelled Words

Author:Sage Francis

“The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.”

Thinking Needs Writing Has Beens Done Whole Light Form Written Lays Rhetoric Swans Jasmine Surrealist Fauns

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.”

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Author:George Fetherling

“There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.”

Men Writing Two Done Running Life Is Three Lines Three Things

Book:The Computer Contradictionary

Source: The Computer Contradictionary

“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.”

People Writing Believe Art Book Done Whole Faces Achievement Liars Sensible Sane Great Art Solemn Brevity

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would admit throwing an f-bomb in there would help get a reaction. ... I'm not on a Puritanical pursuit, but when I would curse in a joke, I believe I'm not done writing it.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.”

Way Writing Done Desire Fiction Written Havens Late Publishing Amazed Another Way More To Life

Author:Philip Roth

“To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.”

Knows World Writing Done Desire Empty Boast Authorship

Book:The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

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