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In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing. Herta Muller

Writing Oneself Angle Entirely Sees Another Experiences Process Searches Keeps Things

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished. Herta Muller

Writing Finished Only Like Know Looks Does Doing Itself While

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier. Herta Muller

Writing Language Something Through Because Five Different Experiences Senses

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing. Hilary Mantel

Commitment Writing Fear Lies Behind

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. Hill Harper

Writing Thinking About Doing Just Acting

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself. Hilton Als

Best Good Writing Strong Care Think Way Best Way About Having Point Point Of View Take Writers Take Care Sticking Itself Going View Theories Served Loads Position

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me. Hilton Als

Love Good Me Writing Has-Been Been Very

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story. Hilton Als

I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too. Hilton Als

Memory Writing Think Too Instagram Remembrance Act Show

What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's just for me, but if it's a piece for a particular publication, I know what they're going to ask for. Hilton Als

Me You Writing Feel Demands Particular Know Piece Any Going Just Ask Certain Publication Satisfy

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.' Hilton Als

You Writing Become Books Kind One Of The Things Magazine About Liked Pieces Anonymity Because Than Different Figure Things

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music. Hiromi Uehara

Music Writing Looking Everyday Journals Ideas Always Interested Keep Basis

I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book. Holly Black

One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different. Holly Black

Great You Writing Great Things Calm Down Nice Books Super Able About Something Write Lighter Stuff Like Calm Down Intense Different Break Little Really Things

I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling. Holly Black

Character Me Writing First Feeling Find Some Gives Writer Particular Process Frustrating Painful Premise Fast Image Start Draft

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want. Holly Hunter

People Writing Somebody Back Distort Geek About Could Like How Am Go Were Versus Goddesses Get Gods Just Being Want Theater Help Help People Right Right Back Humans

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. Holly Johnson

Time Me Writing Consuming Occupation Time-Consuming Very Rewarding Creatively

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing. Hooman Majd

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The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes. Hope Jahren

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I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists. Hope Jahren

Time Writing Other Spend Talking Scientists Lot

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. Horace

Good Writing First Sense Parent Good Sense Both Good Writing Principal Source

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