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“The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.”

Feels Writing Trying Materials Anxiety Hardest Uncomfortable Hardest Thing Explaining Anxiety Attacks

Author:Jenny Lawson

“The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.”

Feels Writing Littles Ends Film Actors Space Roles Shapes Interviews Disguise Shifting

Author:Julia Leigh

“I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.”

Feels Writing Sometimes States Song Lost Constant Translations Lost In Translation

Author:Laura Marling

“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.”

Thinking Feels Writing Wells Children Stories Age Young Groups Adults Young Adult Small Child

Author:Margaret Mahy

“It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.”

Feels Writing Views Point Of View Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.”

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Author:Amelie Nothomb

“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.”

Feels Writing Form Communication Mass Communication

Author:Frank Ocean

“I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.”

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Author:Joseph O'Neill

“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.”

Feels Writing Firsts Play Action Moving Actors Directors Bones Rehearsal Skeletons

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“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 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

“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

“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.”

People Knows Feels Writing Song Writing Songs

Author:Elliott Smith

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.”

Feels Writing Doe Has Beens Hands Government Business Lucky Taxes Checks Finance Bother Strings Disabled Unemployed Irs

Author:Warren Buffett

“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.”

People Ifs Want Feels Writing Humans Persons Problem Audience Fairs Luck Bounds Superiors Dumb Heavenly Inferiors Intervention Comical Paraphrase Human Problems Dumb Luck

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“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

“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”

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Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“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

“The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.”

Feels Writing Years Persons Has Beens Lasts Energy Couple Coming Back

Author:Maggie Smith

“I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.”

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Author:Romeo Santos

“The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.”

People Feels Writing Trying Literature Newspapers Establishment Scottish

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“I feel like I know how to write plot.”

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Author:Mike White

“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.”

“If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.”

Ifs Feels Writing Littles Long Ideas Matter Waiting Solitude Long Time Guilty Good Ideas Insignificant Idleness

Author:Brenda Ueland

“I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.”

Feels Writing Persons Different Used Felt Discipline Inspired Mood Mature

Author:Donald Miller

“I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.”

People Feels Writing Humans Species Bother Apologizing Behalf Capes Ontario Cape Breton

Author:Farley Mowat

“I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.”

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Author:Richard K. Morgan

“I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he's one of our unsung heroes. He's been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I'd just like to bring him to the forefront.”

Thinking Way Needs Feels Writing Dream Roles Fans Acceptance Hero Europe Forgotten Recognition Unsung Hero

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

Needs Feels Writing Trying I Can Three Hours Week Theory Like You Distraction Defence Procrastinating Spades

Author:Markus Zusak

“I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.”

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Author:Sara Zarr

“If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Years Song Know How Singers

Author:Adele

“I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.”

Feels Writing I Can Past Song Stuff Feel Better

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.”

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Author:Claire Messud

“The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.”

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Author:Russell Banks

“I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She won Album of the Year, and she’s a really good writer. I’m a song writer so I respect artists who write their own songs. She won Album of the Year when she was 18 or something like that so, I think she’s dope.”

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Author:Mike Posner

“I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.”

People Way Feels Should Writing Song Felt I Realized Writing Songs

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.”

Feels Writing Force Felt Down And Impulse Uninspired

Author:Zoe Kazan

“The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.”

People Want Feels Writing Kind Night Hate Party Novel Five Four I Hate Going Out Fabulous Funny Things Hate People Schizophrenic I Hate People

Author:Bob Colacello

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.”

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Author:Keegan-Michael Key

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