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“I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.”

Writing Years Firsts Play School Jobs Class College

“Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.”

Author:Ted Bell

“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years Together Song Seeing Fit Healthy Shapes Rivers Chords Folds Lennon

Author:Andrew Dost

“I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.”

Writing Years Shows Topics Daily Show

Author:David Javerbaum

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.”

Writing Trying Years Song

Author:Sondre Lerche

“When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.”

Ifs Writing Years Made Stories Deals Class Teacher Week Short Story Friday English Teacher

Author:Victor Salva

“When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.”

People Writing Years Christian Speak Land Periods Jew Eras Centre Autonomous Birthplace

Book:The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

Source: The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma

“The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.”

Want Writing Years Has Beens Language Nations Secret Ignorance Wall Bigger Consumption Consumerism Charming Cheerful Ugliness Overconsumption Illiterate Vets Infuriating Blithe

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."”

Writing Years Said Science Genius Fame Extremes Spending Forty Desks Bent Buffon

Book:Advice for a Young Investigator

Source: Advice for a Young Investigator

“I've been writing forever, 20 years.”

Writing Years Forever

Author:Mat Johnson

“It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.”

Ifs Writing Years Stills I Can Hard Shows Can Do Records Happened Years Ago Vans Touring Can Do Something

Author:Sharon Van Etten

“Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.”

Thinking Writing Years Art Movement Grew Involved Areas Get Involved Ecological Public Art

Author:Agnes Denes

“Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.”

Writing Years Long Happens Would Be Actors Felt Natural Acting One Day Graves Extensions Daft

Author:Stephen Fry

“I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Morning Praying Wake Up Every Morning

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.”

Ifs Writing Years Stories Cutting Subjects Produce Couple Hollywood Edges Cutting Edge

Author:George Clooney

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.”

Writing Years Talking Typewriters

Author:Alistair Cooke

“Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

Writing Years Next Draws Surprise Next Year Happy New Year Inspirational

Author:Neil Gaiman

“People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.”

People Knows Life Writing Years Has Beens Stories Trust Failure Comedian Trust Yourself Humorists Never Trust Write Your Own Don't Trust Anyone

Author:Kevin Smith

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“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

“Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.”

Writing Years Heart Names Kindness Fame Mercy Forgotten Contact

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.”

Knows Writing Years Has Beens Stills Care Records Fans Criticism Sells Critics Plenty Reviews I Care Nothing New

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.”

Want Writing Years Next Planning

Author:Robert De Niro

“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Book Three Five Lucky Husband Five Years Three Years Housewife

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?”

Writing Years Art Ideas Felt Talking Knowing Produce Draws Critics No Idea Mistrust Rhyming Couplets

Author:Adam Gopnik

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”

Thinking Writing Years Play Happens Waiting Pieces Expression And Love Thirty Sincere Composer Thirty Years

Author:Charles Mingus

“I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.”

Writing Years Book Courses Advice Aids Experts

Author:Robert E. Howard

“Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig on my checks.”

Writing Years Stills Stupidity Yesterday Checks Dumb Chinese New Year Pigs Rabbits

Author:David Letterman

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Firsts Children Book Quality Written Pages Blank

Author:Walt Disney

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.”

“I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Kind Would Be Able Subjects Politician Members Prison Paint Saint Gang Controversial Serials Laughable Gang Members

Author:Robert Draper

“I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.”

Feels Writing Years Together Enjoy Acting Skills Majority Valuable Tragic Editing Shocking Grownups

Author:Charlie Day

“I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.”

Want Writing Years Wells Play Together Song Right Now Band Guitar Starting Scripts Nine Piano Someday My Sister Writing Songs Nine Years

Author:Kaitlyn Dever

“It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.”

Writing Years Kids Differences Memories Behinds Weight Odd

Author:David Bowie

“As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.”

Knows Writing Years Written Criticism Originals Critical Consistently Stressed Charter Framers American Leadership

Author:John Bolton

“For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.”

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Book:With Borges

Source: With Borges

“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.”

“When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.”

Writing Years Has Beens Made Certain Effort Comfortable Areas Nervous Avoided

Author:Merrill Markoe

“I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.”

Writing Years Jobs Song Figures Quitting Full Time Jobs

Author:Tom Lehrer

“I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.”

People Writing Years Book Wanted

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.”

Writing Years Action Wanted Horror Direct Nine Nine Years Action Movie

Author:Jay Baruchel

“I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.”

People Knows Writing Years I Can Play Together Actors Can Do Hours Pay Charity Horrible Bunch Terrified Broadway Playwright Get Together I Can Do It

Author:Scott Raab

“I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.”

People Writing Trying Years Inspiration Age Changed

Author:John Mellencamp

“In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.”

Men Way Writing Years Real Feelings Numbers Deep Feeling Real True

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.”

Thinking Writing Years My Own White Deals Guilt Train South Drivers South Africa Blindness Writing Life Apartheid

Author:Athol Fugard

“I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?”

Writing Years Kind Song Interesting Events Huge Couple Years Ago Strikes Horrible Hips Replacements

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.”

Thinking Giving Writing Years May Bits Giving Up Abandoned Best Work Drawers

Author:C. S. Lewis

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