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When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. Drake
Music You Writing Matter Lose Live Thinking Back Hook Rap About Potent Crowd Onstage Songs Stuff Sing How Going Want Translate Fifty Your Bars Play
I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened. Drew Gilpin Faust
Life Time Writing Thought My Life Books Would More Never Step Sort Sure Always Becoming Than Done Getting Happened Even Lived Ever Professor Things Imagined
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. Duane Michals
Great Photography Writing Words Worth Birds Photograph Thousand Photographers Thousand Words Photographs Cliche Because Got Lot Flak Anyway Originally
Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener. Duff McKagan
Good You Book Writing Sometimes Tell Inside Record Outside Like Get Listener Anymore Story Gonna Far
It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you doing?' when James Roday first started improvising. Steve and the writing staff write it that way. They leave gaps. Dule Hill
You Writing Remember First Way System Wing Write Like Steve Leave Doing Leaving West West Wing Shock Going Improvising Staff Being James Gaps Started
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers. Dustin Diamond
Writing Sit Out Know Until Around Just Numbers
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. Dustin Hoffman
Book Writing Some Direct Bought Been Did Working Act Film
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. Dustin Hoffman
Writing Try Thought Lost Before Few Directing Had Because Years Years Ago Very Quietly Did Maybe Just Stopped Spark Working Start
It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album. Dwight Yoakam
Great Together Song Writing Great Deal Recording Looking Collaborated Varies Buck Studio New Looking Forward Track Although Deal Am Duet Anticipation Forward Album Recently
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. Dwight Yoakam
Great Writing Liberty Luxury Composite Tend Writer Take Always Artistic Form
When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing. Dylan Moran
Writing Mind Walks Other Enough Though Runs Write Like Talk Well Fishing Up Times Going Flies Keep Fast Things Speech
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine. Dylan Moran
Book Writing Before Young Side Teenager Paper Writer Written Spoken Since Concerned Printed Am Blog Been Submarine Very As Far As Whether Far Even
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. E. L. Doctorow
You People Writing About Outlining Write Talking None Doing Planning Researching
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially. E. L. Doctorow
Writing Difficult Immensely Short Forms
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. E. L. Doctorow
Writing Face Everything Way Out Window Only Through Outside Like Look Off Wall Sentences Seal
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries. E. L. Doctorow
Myself Trust Book Writing World Out One Of The Things Find Inventions Writer Had Put Fair Come Learn Discoveries Did Them Act Things Position
The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle. E. L. Doctorow
Good You Struggle Noise Writing Important Down Too Bit Computer Comfortable Important Thing Goes Little Little Bit Street Thing Things
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name. E. L. Konigsburg
Today Great Me Writing Thought First Important Submit White Luck Out Would Admirer Name Know Also First Name Readers Female Were Male Began May Whether Use Manuscript Bring Starting
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart. E. L. Konigsburg
Art Heart Writing Seen Visceral Something Head Happens Need
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. E. O. Wilson
Writing Difficult Think Writer Nonfiction Novel Technique
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. E. O. Wilson
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not. Earl Sweatshirt
Time Myself Good Me You Trust Writing Long Long Time Out Rather Having Write Takes Know Sort Very Bunch Than Mean Whole
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century. Eavan Boland
Faith Good Writing Censorship Distance Good Reason Had Tense Terrible Sources Ireland Irish Literature Century Produced Reason Twentieth Twentieth Century Suffered Kept
Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it. Ed Harris
Best You Creative Writing Whatever Market Kind Willing Netflix Something Computer Take Cable Stuff Know Most Because Amazon Done Just Being Being Done Interesting Mean Creative Writing Chances
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird. Ed Sheeran
Writing Girl Guess Bit Tend Write Songs Instead Weird Which Albums
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place. Edan Lepucki
Love Time You Solitude Writing Internet Wish Spent Online More Outside Head Toward Daydreaming Just Place Interested Ask Requires Less Less Time Deep Lure External
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