Writing

Jack London Novelist, Journalist

Writing

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me."

Writing Beauty Add

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Firoozeh Dumas Author

Writing

"Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing."

Believe Writing Powerful

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

Writing

"It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears."

People Writing Book

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

Writing

"Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing."

Writing Feels Robbing

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

Writing

"Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?""

Thinking Writing Opposites

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

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"Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?"

Writing Ifs Hard

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

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"I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known."

Writing Want Hard Times

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Fran Drescher Actress

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"I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines."

Writing Lines Makeup

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Fran Drescher Actress

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"I'm very involved in the writing on every level."

Writing Levels Involved

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"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 Year

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest."

Men Writing Children

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing."

Writing Firsts Waiting

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads."

Writing Moving Reading

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that's just me) as if you've never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And often, when you get to the end you'll be both enthusiastic about it and know what the next few words are. And you do it all one word at a time."

Thinking Writing Trying

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Neil Simon Playwright

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"You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type."

Writing Play Notebook

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Irving Wallace Author

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"Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night."

Writing Night Pennies

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Harper Lee Novelist

Writing

"Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there."

Writing School University

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Geezer Butler Musician

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"I would not want to write something about something I do not think about"

Thinking Writing Want

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Laurent Binet Author

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"The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism."

Writing Giving Worry

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Ishmael Reed Writer

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"I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world."

Writing World Engaged

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