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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

“I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.”

Writing Enough Remember Felt Sound Scripts Life Experience Cheesy Nyu Writing Scripts

Author:Todd Phillips

“I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.”

World Giving Writing Believe Enough Lost Sound Voice Willing Reader Ideals Keep Going New World

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”

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Author:Thomas Mallon

“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”

Writing Wells Enough Seems Literature Realizing Failing One Thing Depends

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Enough Helping Found Hours Dinner Productive Enough Time Sneaking Up

Author:Michael Crichton

“In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.”

Way Feels Writing Enough Shows Seems Jobs Law Order Stuff Challenges Scripts Excited Plot In-laws

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.”

Writing Enough Would Be Natural Acting Talent Focused Moron Natural Talent

Author:Jen Kirkman

“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.”

“But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.”

Knows Writing Long Book Enough Three Four New Directions

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Enough Today Challenges Vision Stranger Theme Heritage

Author:Eudora Welty

“Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.”

People Writing Wells Ends Enough Facts Nations Stuff Interesting Autobiography

Author:Jane Smiley

“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

“A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.”

Ifs Knows Writing Looks Said Enough Whole Universe Poet Understood Wine Glasses Wine Glass

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

“Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.”

Writing Matter Enough Pens Ink Geese

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.”

Thinking Giving Writing Enough Cutting Rework

Author:Ray Bradbury

“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Heart Enough Earth White Poor Sea Paper Ink

Author:John Lyly

“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Enough Seems Four Thirds Finished Opera

Author:Virgil Thomson

“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

“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

“No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.”

Feels Writing Matter Enough No Matter What Dance

Author:Alvin Ailey

“For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.”

Men Writing Two Enough Moments Literature Creation He Man Concur

Author:Matthew Arnold

“If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.”

Ifs Writing Trying May Hard Enough Challenges Bases Pursuit Encounters Frustration Discouraged Patches Trying Hard

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Mind Book Enough Essays Exhibitions

Author:David Shrigley

“If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.”

Ifs Writing Matter Enough Class College No Matter What Prepared Math Be Prepared Workplace Diploma Science Class Math Class

Author:Rod Blagojevich

“Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.”

Knows Feels Writing Mean Stills Enough Beautiful Simple Mistake Alive Sake Foolish Divinity Live By Assertion Theological Still Life

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

People Writing Trying Enough Love Is Plenty Topics

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Wells Mean Hard Enough Facts Interest My Own Poor Opinion Adventure Theory Ought Oneself Sincere Sentiments Individualism Know Me Egotism Barren Tiresome

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Feels Writing Sometimes Hard Enough Play Song Sleep Advice Higher Musician Dating Aim Instruments Feel Good About Yourself Cake Offense Bakers Aim High Want To Sleep

Author:Julie Klausner

“I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.”

Writing I Can Enough Play Sight Facility Orchestration

Author:Elvis Costello

“I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.”

Writing Wells Enough Able Teach Cases Teacher Taught University Online Yale Writing Well

Author:David Gelernter

“Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.”

Writing Enough Mature

Author:John Mellencamp

“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.”

People Thinking Writing Mind Kind Enough Would Be Able Wanted Song Wish Stars Goal Pay Rocks Willing Rock Star Of My Mind

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.”

Writing Has Beens Art Enough Political Party Rights Intellectual Art Is Property Articles Stolen Cocktails Property Rights Plagiarism Intellectual Property Cocktail Parties

Author:Michael Heizer

“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”

“I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.”

Writing Littles Enough Song Attention Learning Singing Throwing Nuts Monkeys

Author:Dolly Parton

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