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I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Jonathan Carroll

Work

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

Vanessa Carlton

Skin

Writing

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

Music

Writing

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Orson Scott Card

Acting

Writing

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Orson Scott Card

Writing

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Truman Capote

Writing

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.