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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#big #enjoy #i #long #novel

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#every #his #own #pace #varies

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#admire #american #american writer #essay #finished

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. ↗

— Mick Taylor

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I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home. ↗

— Paul Taylor

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Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#any #being #concern #critics #cut

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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