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After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

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Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Needs Quotes

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

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I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Ideas Quotes

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Writing Quotes , Way Quotes

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Challenges Quotes

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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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.

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