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“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

People Thinking Want Writing Believe Difficult Fiction Imagine Easier Memoir Novelists Imaginary Imagine That Imaginary Life

Author:Mark Leyner

“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

“It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.”

Writing Years Kind Two Records Easier Two Years

Author:K. D. Lang

“You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.”

People Way Writing Kind Character Shows Easier One Day Rhythm

Author:Chris Terrio

“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

“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mind May Littles Voice Mystery Effects Easier Profound Who I Am Narrative Abiding Of My Mind Narrative Voice

Author:Gillian Welch

“Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.”

World Writing Made Character Easier Backgrounds Hardest Limitation

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.”

Writing Book Play Hate Easier Criticize

Book:Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.”

Writing Enemy Easier Paper Starting Horrible Blank Distracted Starting Out Horrible Things Blank Paper

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Fall Girl Trouble Easier Red Dresses Bars Chairs Tonight Say Anything Fifth Martini Falling Off

Author:Stephen Sondheim

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

Writing Today Remember Poetry Easier Harder

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

Writing Hate Deals Easier Acknowledge Dislike Flawed

Book:The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

Source: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

“It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Kind Hard Like You Easier Band Negative Critics Reviews Articles

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.”

Writing Easier Exciting

Author:Jillian Bell

“I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Mean Stories Easier Get Away Good Story Humiliating Always Happy

Author:David Sedaris