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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Patton Oswalt

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Writer

Writing

Good writing is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

Writing

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

Leo Ornstein

Burden

Writing

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

Leo Ornstein

Music

Writing

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

Michael Ondaatje

World

Writing

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Mary Oliver

Writers

Writing

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Sharon Olds

Being

Writing

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.