Writing Things Down Quotes

• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Success, Time

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• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Worry, Waiting

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• Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Writing, May

  "A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner".

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• 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

  Writing, Stories, Accord

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

  Marc Maron

  Notebook, Writing, Sacrifice

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

  Chris Campanioni

  Lonely, Writing, Being Myself

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• I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some pretty good ones in my time.

  Rae Morris

  Writing, Cards, Enthusiastic

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• Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Difficult, Composing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.

  Antonio Banderas

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

  Paul McCartney

  Writing, Voice, Pads

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• I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and I would hide them. I would write the year on them and then I would stuff them in a drawer somewhere. But I didn't start to really read until about eight. I'm dyslexic, so it took a long time.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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