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" 95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want. "
Merle Haggard
" A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music. "
Chuck Palahniuk
" Academic writing is such a different way of writing. "
Tara Westover
" A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. "
David Benioff
" A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.' "
Bethany Joy Lenz
" A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. "
Robert McNamara
" A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. "
Grant Achatz
" Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways. "
Josephine de La Baume
" Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. "
Susannah York
" Acting is a job of permission. Someone has to give you permission to do it. But I have started to be like, 'I only want to do things that I want to do,' and writing has afforded me the luxury. "
Justin Theroux
" Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. "
Sophie Marceau
" Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. "
William Shatner
" Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress. "
Jacqueline Susann
" Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing. "
Heather Donahue
" Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. "
Billy Bob Thornton
" Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of. "
Crystal Lowe
" Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. "
Ross Perot
" Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing. "
David Leslie Johnson
" Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. "
Nora Roberts
" Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive. "
Larry Kramer
" Actually, acting and hosting shows just happened on the way, and I will do it 'til it lasts and then concentrate on writing. "
Shenaz Treasury
" Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. "
Gore Vidal
" Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. "
Donna Tartt
" Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years. "
Gerry Mulligan
" Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were writing their essays in English, and they were very interesting - even the sense of structure, the conventions of writing, the different styles of writing. "
Elif Batuman
" Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records. "
Cynthia Weil
" Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies. "
Matthew McGrory
" Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. "
Peter Hook
" A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard. "
Marcus Sakey
" Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data. "
Jan Koum
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