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Tim Cahill quote: "You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write...."
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. Tim Cahill
Tim Cahill quote: "You become a better writer by writing. You become a better..."
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. Tim Cahill
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write. Tommy Shaw
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. Tanith Lee
I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess. Del Shannon
Octavia Butler quote: "Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I..."
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them. Octavia Butler
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. Octavia Butler
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. Octavia Butler
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. David Leavitt
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. Michael LeBoeuf
Emma Lazarus quote: "I am never going to write for the sake of writing."
I am never going to write for the sake of writing. Emma Lazarus
Steve Buscemi quote: "Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is..."
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. Steve Buscemi
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control. Jerome Lawrence
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?' Jennifer Lawrence
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs

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