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writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing race justice
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. Rebecca West
writing fiction half
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing loss world
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
ideas influence outcome time wants
He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it. Joe Monahan
ideas ton
There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.
ideas whatever
We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.
ideas words
ideas and words that do not make any sense. Isadora Duncan
ideas mind riches
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. Robert Collier
ideas rocks perspective
Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea. Rob Reiner
ideas walks
The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.
ideas musical ratios
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. Rob Sheffield
ideas branches might
When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation. Rob Brown
fiction larger-than-life life-is
Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one. Sarah McLachlan
fiction principles wonder
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker
fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. Ursula K. Le Guin
fiction good imagine writer
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that. Andrew Clements
fiction good muscle narrative principle punch root underlying
I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion. Daniel Woodrell
fiction imagined period science thrillers
I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period. Lexa Doig
fiction science-fiction science-love
I love science fiction. Moon Bloodgood
fiction debt ceilings
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. Mike Lee
fiction alive periods
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. Khaled Hosseini