Aaron Zigman Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Running Quotes , Writing Quotes

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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