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Image of Joshua Redman
Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and everyone really had a greater sense of how to write for this band -- not only for this particular instrumentation, but for these particular players. Each year, the reality is getting closer to the ideal of a collective.
- Joshua Redman
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Image of Heather Armstrong
Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
- Heather Armstrong
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Image of Heather Armstrong
I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.
- Heather Armstrong
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Image of Joshua Homme
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
- Joshua Homme
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Image of Hideki Yukawa
I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand, I am sad when I think how I have become increasingly preoccupied with matters other than study.
- Hideki Yukawa
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Image of Mary McGrory
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.
- Mary McGrory
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Image of Kathleen Raine
I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.
- Kathleen Raine
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Image of Ada Leverson
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
- Ada Leverson
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Image of Fanny Burney
But authors before they write should read.
- Fanny Burney
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Image of Fanny Burney
To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every thought, every wish of my heart, with the most unlimited confidence, the most unremitting sincerity, to the end of my life!
- Fanny Burney
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Image of Brander Matthews
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
- Brander Matthews
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Image of Charlie Chaplin
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
- Charlie Chaplin
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Image of John Peter Zenger
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- John Peter Zenger
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Image of William Lawrence Bragg
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.
- William Lawrence Bragg
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Image of Julie Taymor
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.
- Julie Taymor
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Image of Charles Bartlett Johnson
My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.
- Charles Bartlett Johnson
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Image of Ashanti
When I'm writing my album, it's totally my world. Even though it's myself and another producer creating the project, Conceptually it's more under my power and on my own terms. At the same time, it's a different type of pressure because I'm ultimately speaking, I'm solely responsible for the end result.
- Ashanti
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Image of Arlene Croce
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.
- Arlene Croce
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Image of Callie Khouri
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
- Callie Khouri
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Image of Callie Khouri
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
- Callie Khouri
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Image of Charles Ghigna
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
- Charles Ghigna
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Image of Charles Ghigna
STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE
- Charles Ghigna
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Image of Frank Loesser
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.
- Frank Loesser
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Image of Robert Caro
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.
- Robert Caro
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Image of Robert Caro
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.
- Robert Caro
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Image of Nancy Mairs
I will write myself into well-being.
- Nancy Mairs
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Image of Nancy Mairs
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
- Nancy Mairs
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Image of Nancy Mairs
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.
- Nancy Mairs
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Image of Leon Edel
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
- Leon Edel
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Image of David Halberstam
There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.
- David Halberstam
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Image of Paul Haggis
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
- Paul Haggis
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Image of Paul Haggis
Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.
- Paul Haggis
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Image of Paul Haggis
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
- Paul Haggis
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Image of Paul Haggis
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
- Paul Haggis
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Image of Frank Bruni
Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover an issue you are at least encouraging people to think about all the possibilities and if you're not covering political reform, electoral reform, you can write stories about them that don't say we must do this but just educate people on the fact that there are various advocates who are tugging us in that direction, that can present the arguments of those advocates, and I do think that's an issue we for some reason completely turned away from.
- Frank Bruni
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Image of Whitney Cummings
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
- Whitney Cummings
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Image of Beverly Cleary
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
- Beverly Cleary
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Image of Jesse Stuart
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
- Jesse Stuart
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Image of Yasmina Reza
After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
- Yasmina Reza
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Image of Chris Brogan
If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
- Chris Brogan
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Image of Joe Scarborough
What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next.
- Joe Scarborough
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Image of Mark Mothersbaugh
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.
- Mark Mothersbaugh
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Image of Sally Quinn
... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.
- Sally Quinn
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Image of William Hughes Mearns
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.
- William Hughes Mearns
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Image of Henry Vaughan
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.
- Henry Vaughan
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Image of Neal Ascherson
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.
- Neal Ascherson
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Image of Ernesto Cardenal
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
- Ernesto Cardenal
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Image of Ernesto Cardenal
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
- Ernesto Cardenal
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Image of Amanda Bynes
'Now I've tasted chocolate I'm not going back'. That's a great line. That's not me, that's all the writing. I mean it's like it doesn't matter who plays it, it's a great role. It's such a funny, tongue in cheek kind of great role.
- Amanda Bynes
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