Quotes and Sayings About Writing
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Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.
-- A. V. Dicey -
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
-- A.C. Grayling -
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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.
-- A.L. KennedySource : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
-- A.L. KennedySource : "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.
-- A.M. Homes -
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The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
-- Aaron Belz -
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
-- Aaron Carter -
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
-- Aaron Hill -
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
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When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
-- Aaron SorkinSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
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I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
-- Abba EbanSource : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
-- Abbi Glines -
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
-- Abbie Cornish -
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
-- Abby ElliottSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.