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I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Reading

Right

Writing

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Idea

Writing

You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

Tim LaHaye

Fiction

Writing

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Charles Kuralt

Reading

Writing

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

John Kricfalusi

Talk

Writing

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.