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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. -- Scott Rudin
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. -- Anne Lamott
I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential. -- Jonathan Lethem
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go. -- Paul Auster
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling. -- Karen Thompson Walker
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... -- Joel Achenbach
The best adaptations are the ones that really excavate the material. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing and put it into a story. -- Scott Rudin
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to. -- Joanna Newsom
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. -- Anne Sexton
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. -- Terry Tempest Williams
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. -- Karen Thompson Walker
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. -- Anita Diament
I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful. -- Bob Newhart
I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language. -- Holly Black
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. -- Kim Edwards
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader. -- Edward Tufte
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song. -- Bryan Ferry
Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time. -- Ruth Ozeki
It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public. -- Banks
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful. -- Junot Diaz
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve. -- Eleanor Catton
Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job! -- Lily Rabe
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. -- Robert Cormier
The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing. -- Vikram Seth
If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving. -- Barry Manilow
Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete. -- Ralph Fletcher
Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece. -- Heather Sellers
It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards. -- Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. -- Anais Nin
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. -- Diane Johnson
Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter. -- Edith Sitwell
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. -- Anne Lamott
You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting. -- Peter Turchi
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money. -- Charles Bukowski
When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words. -- Violet Duke
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile. -- Frankie Cosmos

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