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“I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.”

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Author:Ben Marcus

“The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.”

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Author:David Brooks

“Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.”

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Author:Lizz Winstead

“If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.”

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Author:M. H. Abrams

“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”

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Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a lyric that sounds nice in that line - that's not very tricky - but it's a different thing to write something that sounds nice and actually comes from someplace real.”

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Author:Tove Styrke

“I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.”

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Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.”

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Author:Courtney Love

“Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski