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When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#better #harder #play #really #service

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing. ↗

— Hilary Duff

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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#deal #feelings #find #images #intense

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#enjoy #i #me #parts #playing

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #i write #never #really #themes

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#children #drive #gives #narrative #sense

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#energy #lot #neurosis #novel #really