5461 Writing Quotes for You to Enjoy

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing. Charli XCX

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The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album. Charlie Daniels

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There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it. Charlie Haden

Music Writing World Enough About Without Going

I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A. Charlie McDermott

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One thing helps the other. My stand-up helps my writing; my writing helps my stand-up; my stand-up helps my acting. They're all interlocked. Charlie Murphy

Writing Other One Thing Acting Helps Thing

I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone. Charlie Puth

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You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to. Chelsea Cain

You Writing Living Write Until Make Learn Want

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job. Chelsea Cain

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I think it was in high school when I was listening to Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch or Avril Lavigne - that time when female pop rock was really having a moment - and it really resonated with me. I started writing poetry, and I was learning how to play guitar at the time, but I didn't really put the two together for a while. Chelsea Lankes

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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it. Cheryl Mendelson

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I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference. Chester Himes

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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful. Chevy Chase

Family Writing Few Films Solid Lot Very Awful

When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller. Chevy Stevens

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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such. Chevy Stevens

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I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Writing Old Enough Spell Considered Never Since Been Old Enough

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing. China Mieville

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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else. Chinua Achebe

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Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.' Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Writing Spices Important Differences Mistress Always Been Motive Right

Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should. Chris Abani

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