Writing

Russell T Davies Television Producer, Writer

Writing

"Anything works, as long as you write it properly."

Writing Long

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Ryan Lewis Music Producer, Rapper

Writing

"I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done."

Writing Creativity Drinking

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist

Writing

"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to."

Writing Inspirational Important

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Sonny Bono Musician, Actor, Politician

Writing

"People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records."

Writing Play Song

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Octavia Butler Author, Novelist

Writing

"I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them."

Writing Trying Fancy

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Octavia Butler Author, Novelist

Writing

"If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell."

Writing Needs Persistence

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Naguib Mahfouz Novelist

Writing

"I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat."

Writing Morning Up Early

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Mac Davis Singer-Songwriter

Writing

"I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there."

Writing Song Growing Up

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L. Ron Hubbard Author

Writing

"If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion."

Writing Want Book

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write."

Writing Want Audience

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain."

Writing Brain Cafes

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them."

Writing Book Girl

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H. G. Wells Writer

Writing

"Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart."

Writing Heart Blow

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H. G. Wells Writer

Writing

"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."

Writing Literature Ambition

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

Writing

"The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say."

Writing Want Facts

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

Writing

"If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired"

Writing World Tired

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Zachary Cole Smith Musician

Writing

"I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid."

Writing Kids Dad

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Zbigniew Herbert Poet

Writing

"I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology"

Writing Transformation Archaeology

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician, Poet, Essayist

Writing

"What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!"

Writing Blessed Criticism

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader

Writing

"I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning."

Writing Children Art

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