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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.


Iris Johansen


#better #could #critical #done #exception

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.


Florence Griffith Joyner


#being #both #concentration #dream #excellence

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!


Nanci Griffith


#being #catch #else #good #hand

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.


Matt Groening


#before #beginning #characters #comments #done

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'


Ursula K. Le Guin


#anymore #because #classes #feel #glad

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.


Jane Haddam


#audience #conferences #conventions #field #fights

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.


Debbie Harry


#i #i do #paid #performer #want

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.


Joseph Haydn


#composed #efforts #great #i #never

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.


Suzanne Vega


#certain #civil #experience #follow #formalities

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.


Sean Hayes


#another #because #been #behind #cast






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