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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing.
I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.
The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
I can't do anything other than writing. I'm not very able, generally. If I'd not been a writer, I would probably be a very unsuccessful political adviser to someone or have worked for a council.
Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.
I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.
Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.
I accomplished a lot in 2017 that I'd dreamt of: a late night set, TV writing gig, a speaking movie role.
I go through my tweets while writing and be like, ‘Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.'
Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
I read a lot of scripts, and there's a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn't necessarily speak to me.
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I was in the 6th grade, so I had this style of writing that was definitely not proper for writing a book.
Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process: editors, PR people.
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.
I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.
I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
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