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• We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

  Patrick McHenry

  Writing, Reform, Needs

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• When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

  David E. Kelley

  Writing, Stories, Process

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• Music is an important part of my writing process.

  Peter James

  Writing, Important, Process

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

  Alice Englert

  Growing Up, Writing, Editing

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• And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.

  Jason Bateman

  Writing, Work Out, Messages

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• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  J. Cole

  Song, Writing, Good Day

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• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Choices, World

  "Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the 'Wild' things are". Interview with Jonathan Cohen, www.reuters.com. October 27, 2007.

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• Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teacher, Real, Struggle

  Kelly Gallagher (2011). “Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts”, p.21, Stenhouse Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

  Brie Larson

  Writing, Thinking, Way

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

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• I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Writing, Doors, Practice

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• There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

  Joy Williams

  Writing, Process, Destructive

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• I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Dream, Writing, Order

  "Watch ‘Inception’ In Real Time & Ten Key Quotes From Chris Nolan’s Interview With Brother Jonathan" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Inspiration, Writing, Usual

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.

  Mary Rodgers

  Mother, Loneliness, Book

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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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• Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Editing, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.

  Chris Wyse

  Song, Inspiration, Missing

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• Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

  Brian Selznick

  Writing, Doe, Surprise

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• Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Editing, Lasts

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

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• [Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.

  Erica Jong

  Real, Writing, People

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• The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

  Ethan Hawke

  Writing, Band, Moments

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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