- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really, really, really love writing comics.
- Gaming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always enjoyed gaming, but even as I got older, and I started to get deeper into writing and all this stuff that is my grown-up job, I couldn't play as much as I used to.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's face it, writing is hell.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
- Glued
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was 'Everybody Loves a Winner.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.
- Difficulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely, I did not, after 'SNL,' say, 'OK, first I'll go be in Alexander Payne's movie.' I thought I might go back to writing, to be honest.
- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
- Behaves
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure what my material would have been if I'd have started earlier. I probably would have started with 'Damsels in Distress' kinds of films because that's the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn't really have any life experience to work off of.
- Machine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X and the other guys in the band spent their free time working on their other projects.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we're pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.
- High Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
- Stronger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
- Nov 07, 2020
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hard writing makes easy reading.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know rather than what I do know.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech. It was something that had a certain formality, something in which the words were of interest in themselves.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020