Al Yankovic Quotes, Writing Quotes

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

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Movies are like writing history with lightning.

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

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Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Writing Quotes , Printed Word Quotes

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

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