Writing

Dodie Smith Author

Writing

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."

Writing Sitting Kitchen

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Dodie Smith Author

Writing

"It is rather exciting to write by moonlight."

Writing Exciting Moonlight

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist

Writing

"When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it."

Writing Ideas Often Can

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Dylan Moran Comedian

Writing

"We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy."

Writing Joy Situation

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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic

Writing

"It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book."

Writing Book Hate

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker

Writing

"To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an ice cream cone, coloring a picture, or jumping rope. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as a child and choose one of these activities to do today."

Writing Children Fun

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Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist

Writing

"When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of."

Writing Ideas Fire

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Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist

Writing

"Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd."

Writing Two Talking

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Chelsea Martin Artist

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"I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it."

Thinking Writing Couple

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Chelsea Wolfe Musician

Writing

"I read the reviews sometimes, but I don't let it really affect the next album because, for me, when I approach an album, it's usually coming to me pretty naturally. It's not like I set out, like, "Okay, I'm going to write an album this month." It's more like I'm just always writing songs and eventually I start to realize that a group of songs sort of fits together, and I go from there in putting together the album and themes and artwork and things like that."

Writing Song Together

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist

Writing

"I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters. And then smile very serenely until they say, Oh."

People Writing Motivation

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet

Writing

"Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write."

Writing Stories Use

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet

Writing

"If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect."

Writing Want Dialect

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet

Writing

"I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it."

Writing Taste Teach

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Coco Jones Singer, Actress

Writing

"I would have to say the best was when my mom formed a company for me. I write out all of the checks for my performance business. I get to see the money I make and how much it takes to do what I do."

Writing Mom Checks

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Coco Jones Singer, Actress

Writing

"Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing."

Writing Dream Blessed

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Colette Freedman Author

Writing

"I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds...and the language is a bit more "colorful"."

Writing Play Differences

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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"Teaching writing is a hustle."

Writing Teaching Hustle

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Clint Smith Poet, Educator

Writing

"Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!"

Writing Wise Speak

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Christopher Young Composer

Writing

"I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the room with their fingers in their ears. But in a movie all of a sudden it becomes incredibly accessible and appreciated."

Writing Running Horror

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