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• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Writing, Commitment, Past

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• For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).

  Teddy Wayne

  Wall, Writing, World

  "'My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically': Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books". www.salon.com. September 13, 2016.

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• As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Use, Internet

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• In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.

  Michael Arndt

  Lonely, Real, Writing

  "Toy Story 3′ screenwriter talks toys with the Daily". Interview with Lorrayne Shen, tuftsdaily.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Play, Two

  "Laughing matters". Book by Larry Gelbart, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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• My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.236, Bantam

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• Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Discovery, Quality

  "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Strong, Trying, Lessons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

  Sharon Cameron

  Writing, Process, Knows

  Source: bookpage.com

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• When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Sweet, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It keeps building and building when you add the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals until you finally reach the finished song other people can enjoy.

  Manika

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to write a novel that shows the points of view of people of different ages and personalities.

  Kathleen Winter

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

  Source: katesbookblog.blogspot.com

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• I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

  Megan Chance

  Writing, Sound, Pages

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you're writing a song sometimes it'll be a very visual song.

  Luke Hemmings

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: variety.com

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• I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.

  Vivek Shraya

  Writing, Flow, Process

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Fiction, Process

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• I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Writing, Talking, Desire

  Source: www.thatvideogameblog.com

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• The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

  Fernando Torres

  Writing, Different, Process

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Writing, Phones, Directors

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• I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.

  Bernard Fanning

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

  Conor McPherson

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

  St. Lucia

  Writing, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Writing, Casting, Imagine

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.

  Olivia Wilde

  Writing, Process

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Thinking, Letters

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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