#writing

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. ↗

— Richard Harding Davis

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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

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As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. ↗

— Georges Bizet

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I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

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There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal. ↗

— Dan Deacon

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When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. ↗

— Anita Desai

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I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. ↗

— William Devane

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