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“You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Care Stuff Audience

Author:Paullina Simons

“I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stories Difficult Doctors Doctor Who Assistants

Author:Sarah Sutton

“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”

Knows Writing Trying Heart Real Character Relate Performers Being Real

Author:Uma Thurman

“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

“No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.”

Knows Writing Book Lasts Waiting Pages Tests Dna

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.”

Knows Writing Years Stories Courses Reading Projects Years Ago Scripts Producers Exhausted Screenplays Screenwriters

Author:Kerry Washington

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

Knows Feels Writing Know How Plot

Author:Mike White

“What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.”

People Knows Want Writing Said My Family Who We Are

Author:Shayne Ward

“I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.”

Thinking Knows World Writing Littles Stories Today Heard Around The World Urges Peasants Puzzled Irrepressible

Author:Mo Yan

“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.”

People Knows Want Writing Trying Years Humans Heart Has Beens Book Natural Secret Thousand Preserves Contribution Thousand Years Human Heart Natural History

Author:August Strindberg

“All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.”

Knows Needs Giving Writing Character Goal

Author:J.A. Konrath

“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.”

Knows Writing Wells May I Can Book Asks Ask Me

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.”

Knows Writing Two Lying Difficult Calling Commitment Resistance Oppression Rooted Nobility Refusal

Book:Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

Source: Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”

Thinking Knows Giving Writing Book Able Language Answers Walks Steps Class Trouble Feet Give Me Magazines Coaching Yarn Centipedes

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.”

Thinking Knows Writing Persons Book Care Kids My Own Possibility Instinct Censorship Who Cares New Books

Author:Lois Lowry

“When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.”

People Knows Should Writing Has Beens Shows Might Today Responsibility Fingers Articles

Author:Matt Lauer

“I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.”

Knows Writing I Can Pain My Own

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I write about what I know.”

Author:Shelby Lynne

“You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.”

Knows Writing Intention

Author:Tommy Lee

“You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.”

Knows Writing Certain Creating Tools Mad Creating Something Cynthia

Author:Barry Mann

“When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.”

People Knows Writing Mean Lying

Author:Eva Mendes

“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

“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.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Littles Stills Hard Lost Bits Process Example Little Bit My Way Familiarity

Author:Sara Zarr

“I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.”

Knows Writing Kind Guy Song Figures Normal Melancholy Depressing Really Depressing

Author:Townes Van Zandt

“My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.”

Knows Writing Firsts Real Wanted Jobs Rocks Stones Bunch Journalism Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones Investigative Journalism

Author:Tim Cahill

“I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.”

People Knows Want Writing Two Different Used Girl Know How Grew Grew Up Letters Supportive Being Different

Author:Noureen DeWulf

“I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.”

Knows Writing Heart Song Broken Elusive Heart Broke

Author:Adele

“I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Difficult Millions Listening Albums Breakup Get Over

Author:Adele

“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

“You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.”

Knows Writing I Can Novel Imagine Writing Poetry

Author:Vikram Seth

“I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.”

Knows Writing Heart School Educate

Author:Terrence McNally

“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

“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Two Character Names Sound Struggle Trouble Findings Letters

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.”

Knows Writing Littles Running Ready Coffee Drunk Shirts Outlook Drank Shirt Off

Book:Valencia

Source: Valencia

“I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore”

Knows Want Writing Stories Wanted Jobs Fiction Quitting Explanation Short Story I Quit

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'”

Knows Writing Might Sound Band

Author:Noel Gallagher

“No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.”

Knows Way Writing Matter Reason Light Sides Growth Situation Happened Stage Divine Higher Difficulty No Matter What Uplifting Serving Divine Light

Author:Barbara Rose

“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Book Know Yourself Writing A Book

Author:Shereen El Feki

“I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.”

Author:Colum McCann

“I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.”

Knows Way Writing Firsts Book Students Linear

Author:Carol Anshaw

“I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.”

Knows Writing Book Ideas Ends No Idea

Author:Ted Bell

“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

“When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.”

Ifs Knows Writing Character Actors Projects Approach Lists Standpoint Adjectives

Author:Omari Hardwick

“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.”

People Knows Writing Home Fields Football Bed My Family Letters Prison Did You Know Football Field Bunk

Author:Michael Vick

“In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.”

Knows Writing Culture Witty Twists Korean

Author:PSY

“Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.”

Knows Men Writing I Can Painting Driven Drawing Software

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.”

Knows Way Writing Ideas Next Language Steps Know How No Idea Programming Logical Programming Languages

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.”

Knows Writing Firsts Song Heard

Author:Rico Love

“I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.”

Knows Writing Littles Sometimes Bits Emotion Little Bit Prose Purple

Author:Buzz Bissinger