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I'm just writing a story that I want to read. -- Jean M. Auel
I am really just writing about real life. -- Klayton
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience. -- Carl Reiner
Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life. -- Erica Jong
I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. -- Max Schneider
I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form. -- Simone Muench
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing. -- Rachel Zucker
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel. -- Elliott Smith
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. -- Roddy Doyle
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. -- Vivian Gornick
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. -- Adam Duritz
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college. -- Damien Chazelle
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. -- Roddy Doyle
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. -- Clive James
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings. -- Mary Oliver
I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs. -- Billy Sherwood
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. -- Bryan Adams
You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu. -- Karen Russell
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is. -- Layne Staley
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. -- Rick Riordan
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. -- Hill Harper
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs. -- Adele
I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me. -- Amy Tan
I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off. -- Matt McGorry
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading. -- Sarah Dessen
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel. -- Shooter Jennings
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. -- Chuck Klosterman
I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain. -- David Cross
Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more. -- Darren Rowse
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do. -- Lawrence Block
When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles. -- Austin Butler
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back. -- James Mercer
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? -- Anne Tyler
Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come. -- Will Hobbs
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world. -- Joanna Lumley
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. -- Dave Eggers
I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story. -- Steve Martin
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships. -- Sophie Hannah
One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself. -- Julianna Baggott
I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers. -- Jonny Greenwood
I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write. -- Marc Cherry
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. -- Eli Broad
You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things. -- Summer Glau
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders. -- Chris Elam
We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances. -- Alice Mattison
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things. -- Joan Jett
People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song. -- Bruno Mars
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I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us. -- Natalie Goldberg
I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest thing, and I don't even like to bring it up, is my children - you know, you've gotta protect them. -- Gwen Stefani
Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect. -- Freeman Dyson
Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it. -- Ellie Goulding
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down. -- Elvis Costello
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics. -- Sampha
I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun working the vernacular of work into poems. I'm also writing some poems about family. And I don't know, just writing. Taking breaks. Writing some more. -- Randall Mann
When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of the lines - some hold up better as lines than others. But I'm not thinking of just writing a paragraph and then chopping it up. -- Billy Collins
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own. -- Sandra Cisneros
For me, writing is just processing. -- Mary Lambert
Every actor just wants good writing. -- Jeff Daniels
I just want to keep writing music. -- Lady Gaga
Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough. -- Stephen Chow
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication. -- Maya Angelou
Writing is a workout, just like going for a run! -- Meg Cabot
I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. -- Mike Wallace
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something. -- Geddy Lee
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs. -- Darren Criss
I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape. -- Ed Westwick
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there. -- Martin McDonagh
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction. -- Joe Haldeman
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. -- Fisher Stevens
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process. -- Lisa Marie Presley
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music. -- Johnny Ramistella
I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me. -- Wayne Dyer
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. -- Norton Juster
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters. -- Norton Juster
I just like doing it, I like writing. -- Alice Mattison
Writing just for the hell of it is heaven. -- Julia Cameron
Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein. -- Red Barber
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is. -- Ernest Hemingway
Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap. -- John Krasinski
When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on. -- Malachy McCourt
... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question. -- Alanis Morissette
Writing good jokes requires effort. Think I'll just start dressing funnier. -- Dov Davidoff
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do. -- Eddie Van Halen
Writing music is just something that I was born to do. -- Joan Armatrading
If I am just home and writing, I become very strange. -- Kate DiCamillo
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. -- Charles Willeford
I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience. -- Leon Bridges
I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays. -- Leonard Mlodinow
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws. -- Jacqueline Woodson
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. -- Dolly Parton
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it. -- Natalie Goldberg
The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job. -- Jemaine Clement
I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. -- Richard Thompson
If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead. -- James Patterson
I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do. -- Alejandro Zambra
Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing. -- Julia Sweeney
Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me. -- Justin Timberlake
I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice. -- Simone Elkeles
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire. -- Gillian Marchenko
I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good. -- John Dufresne
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. -- Kenny Hickey
I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time. -- John Cariani
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. -- Jack Vance
There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not. -- Mick Hucknall
Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone. -- Dan Auerbach
My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened. -- Jeff Baena
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging. -- Maynard James Keenan
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. -- Ivan Reitman
I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television. -- Donal Logue
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments. -- Natalia Kills

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