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Related I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ... NORA EPHRON With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories. HANNIBAL BURESS Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writ... JONATHAN GUNSON It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself... SAM DEW See things as they are and write about them. Dont waste your creative energy trying to make things... GORDON ATKINSON Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve... WALTER GILBERT The more you write, the better you will get at writing. The better you get at writing, the more you ... LORRIN L. LEE When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're do... E. L. 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I had never thought about writing about it, and in... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... TEJU COLE Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflec... SUZANNE VEGA I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... WENDY COPE I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about h... PEARL CLEAGE You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... HARRY STYLES Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu... CAROLYN CHUTE For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words y... LINCOLN CHILD You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. GENE WOLFE If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person an... CAROLINE B. COONEY When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that... ROB LOWE Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol... DAMON GALGUT I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of thei... K. FLAY If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her... JEFF BUCKLEY You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing... HARRY STYLES Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei... SYLVIA PLATH One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. I... LUCY LARCOM Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimite... JULIA CAMERON If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to... TANA FRENCH I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int... NATALIE MERCHANT By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you ... RICHARD RUSSO When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there. ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will fee... DOUGLAS BRUNT If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write. CHARLES STROSS There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for ... KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really... ELLIE GOULDING One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will d... MARK TWAIN Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on yo... GENE FOWLER Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate... WALTER MOERS I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tensio... DAN BROWN If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of Indi... KIRAN DESAI When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, co... LADY GAGA Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ... LOUISE BROWN Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers... EDGARDO H. PANGILINAN Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write somethi... LAUREN MILLER not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word... TARUN BETALA You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of ... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ... EMILY ROBISON I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted,... CALEB CARR It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. ANTON CHEKHOV Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen. SIMON MAWER The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The... BRYAN KOEPKE It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then do... ANAIS NIN If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then do... ANAïS NIN Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... TEJU COLE I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on... VICTORIA WOOD Life is like writing without an eraser. But the good thing is, you can always write "I'm sorry," and... JOHN B. BEJO All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidd... PAOLO BACIGALUPI Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have an... RACHEL JOHNSON You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank p... JODI PICOULT You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different w... ANNIE PROULX Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. WILLIAM COBBETT For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I... KATE GRENVILLE I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biograph... DAVID MARANISS If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ... DANA BRUNETTI When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing a... MARGARET STOHL You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. JOHN ROGERS If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a... JULIE KLAUSNER It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journ... MAL PEET 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer Write. Write more. Write even more. W... BRIAN CLARK You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. JOSS WHEDON
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Y, si nos hace falta una eternidad, mucho mejor, po... LAINI TAYLOR Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la u... LAINI TAYLOR El Amor es un Elemento. --- Akiva LAINI TAYLOR War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can inve... LAINI TAYLOR I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party... ROD TAYLOR I think every fight is a tough fight, but I'm not settling for a bronze medal. KATIE TAYLOR Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h... TAYLOR SWIFT Never judge a stranger by his clothes. ZACHARY TAYLOR When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo... TAYLOR SWIFT In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care ... ZACHARY TAYLOR I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D... ZACHARY TAYLOR In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain... ZACHARY TAYLOR As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and po... ZACHARY TAYLOR Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon... ZACHARY TAYLOR I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the polit... ZACHARY TAYLOR The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu... ZACHARY TAYLOR The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It ha... ZACHARY TAYLOR I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last president... ZACHARY TAYLOR My wife was as much of a soldier as I was. ZACHARY TAYLOR It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. ZACHARY TAYLOR In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes. ZACHARY TAYLOR The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is po... ZACHARY TAYLOR I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, whic... ZACHARY TAYLOR Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man ... ZACHARY TAYLOR As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so wi... ZACHARY TAYLOR I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ... TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,... TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime. TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents. TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what... TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials... TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai... TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an... TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years... TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki... TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I... TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec... TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int... TAYLOR WILSON