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I really want to get into writing film music. I'm really passionate about that.
Vanessa Brown

As you get older, it's nice to be able to relax a bit about your appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that's on the exterior.
Emma Samms

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.
Alex Parks

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. [on the science, or art, of writing a book]
Elizabeth George

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness
Georges Simenon

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
Katherine Mansfield

People seem to be writing off England and that's a dangerous thing to do.

They have a lot of very good players and just because they haven't been going well over the last year and a bit, it doesn't mean they can't win anymore!
Andrew Mehrtens

Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.
Michael Parkinson

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Bill Bryson

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
Andre Maurois

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
John Amos

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Justice Brandeis

I wish that dear Karl could have spent more time acquiring capital instead of merely writing about it.
Jenny Marx

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
Emilio Estevez

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer

Liam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel Gallagher

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
Chris Lowe

Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn

No machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. [not at the time of writing anyhow Louis, who knows what the future will bring!]
Louis Gerstner

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony Davis

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Liz Carpenter

Almost all writing is an act of discovery for me.
Joseph Epstein

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul Desmond

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.
Kim Gordon

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Writing's much the same at any age - sticking one's head out of the trench to be shot at, the better to catch some butterfly.
Fay Weldon

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Ernest Hemingway

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again [after Harry Potter]
J K Rowling

Shake[speare] was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
H C Bunner

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav Flaubert

I always did my best in writing to Santa Claus, but I never thought of writing as something you did for a profession.
Dee Brown

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John Pilger

The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
Margaret Atwood

On what? [when asked if he had ever thought of writing an autobiography!]
Chris Eubank

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence Sterne

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.
Rob Thomas

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias Canetti

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas A Kempis

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

There is something very therapeutic about a piece of writing, many will tell you it is a quite cathartic experience.
James Houston

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. [On the difficulties of writing - not writers block but loneliness]
Catie Curtis

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W Somerset Maugham

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana Trump

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote



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