Writing Process Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Writing, Waste, Wasting Time

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have no one else involved in the writing process. I would hate to feel that I was going into the studio with something wishy-washy and not done. It's because I'm a control freak, so I want to know that everything is sorted and what's going to come out the other end, obviously with a bit of leeway.

  Marika Hackman

  Hate, Writing, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple drafts, and I work with the writers on all these things. And I'm extremely involved in the writing process.

  Matthew Weiner

  Writing, Multiple, Single Word

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.

  Angel Olsen

  Writing, Intimate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody has their own approach to songwriting. When you're an electronic musician, the whole writing process just depends. Some people have a very live way of writing electronic music, very improvisational. They set up a lot of gear and do live takes. I'm concerned with having a specific kind of sound. There's not one second that I haven't put thought into. I put almost as much time into my live shows as I do into writing music, but they're two completely different processes. Some people think the way I perform live is how I write songs, which isn't true at all.

  Travis Stewart

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines of a compulsive need to swap syllables around, rework words and sentences - I revise for the pleasure and satisfaction of it, rather than out of a sense of duty.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Ocd, Pleasure

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• As I've evolved in life my writing process has taken a turn. I'm inspired by everyday life. I could be in the middle of something and hear a commercial. I enjoy songs writing themselves.

  Kelly Price

  Song, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Writing, Trying, Feedback

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• Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

  Mpho Koaho

  Song, Writing, Creating

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Process, Extensions

  Source: deadline.com

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• So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

  Morgan Parker

  Writing, Trying, Kind

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is getting a reputation for doing manga related work. But I would say that my scripts are NOT manga at the stage of my writing process, they are just comic book stories in a more general sense.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded, and once we're mixing, that's when it occurs to me. Then you start rehearsing to play shows. I never concern myself about how we're going to pull it off live, because I know we'll figure out a way to do it.

  Tad Kubler

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and chatting and getting to know how they work. Everybody has a different writing process so there was a lot of getting to know people, which can be fun and stressful at the same time.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Song, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Memories, Reading, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.

  David Morse

  Writing, Giving, Tables

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Hurt, Fun, Teenager

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• My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

  Charles R. Morris

  Writing, Perspective, West

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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