Jon Winokur @AdviceToWriters Twitter profile

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

6 years

You have to live with the notion of, “If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.” @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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I put myself in the character's shoes, talk to myself until something honest comes out, and write it down. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ( @Lin_Manuel )

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@AdviceToWriters

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You can’t control your legacy; it is determined by who survives. All you can control is the work. Make the best thing you know how. The world will do with it what it will. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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I wrote my first #Broadway musical, “In the Heights,” because I wanted a future in #theater and I didn't see a place for myself. So I wrote one. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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@AdviceToWriters

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You have to live with the notion of, If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

5 years

You're gonna make mistakes. You're gonna fail. You're gonna get back up. You're gonna break hearts. You're gonna change minds. You're gonna make noise. You're gonna make music. You're gonna be late, let's GO @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. Just do it and the confidence will follow. CARRIE FISHER #amwriting #writerslife

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

7 years

In the best wrks of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try 2 write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons. @Lin_Manuel

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

5 years

You're gonna make mistakes. You're gonna fail. You're gonna get back up. You're gonna break hearts. You're gonna change minds. You're gonna make noise. You're gonna make music. You're gonna be late, let's GO @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writerslife

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

I wrote my first #Broadway musical, “In the Heights,” because I wanted a future in theater and I didn't see a place for myself. So I wrote one. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. Just do it and the confidence will follow. CARRIE FISHER #amwriting #writerslife

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

6 years

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance. JAMES BALDWIN #amwriting #writerslife

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

If you're thinking of an idea in the shower or while you're walking your dog, and if it still sticks the next day there’s probably something to it. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #inspiration #writing

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

6 years

I try not to think of #writing as a burden at all. My job is to fall in love…. It’s really about being inspired and being in love…. If it starts to feel like a responsibility and it starts to feel like homework…I need it to feel like a love affair. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

6 years

I wrote my first Broadway musical, “In the Heights,” because I wanted a future in #theater and I didn't see a place for myself. So I wrote one. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ( @Lin_Manuel ) #amwriting #writing

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

7 years

I write w/soft pencils because you get to spend more time sharpening the pencil, which is easier and more fun than writing. STEPHEN SONDHEIM

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

5 years

In the best works of #fiction , there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #drama #writingtip

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. Just do it and the confidence will follow. CARRIE FISHER #writinglife

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

7 years

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable! LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN #art #literature #music

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Start #writing . I don't mean to sound dismissive, but START WRITING. There is NO SUCH THING as "too late" in the arts. PATTON OSWALT

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Jon Winokur

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4 years

If you're thinking of an idea in the shower or while you're walking your dog, and if it still sticks the next day there’s probably something to it. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #creativity #writing

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7 years

I think of #acting and #writing as one and the same thing. It’s all about getting inside your characters. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ( @Lin_Manuel )

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

7 years

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on. @Lin_Manuel

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8 years

I’m #writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. SHANNON HALE

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic. @Lin_Manuel #art #literature #writing

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

The scariest moment is always just before you start. STEPHEN KING #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. VIRGINIA WOOLF

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@AdviceToWriters

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I put myself in the character's shoes, talk to myself until something honest comes out, and write it down. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ( @Lin_Manuel ) #amwriting

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

3 years

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better. STEPHEN KING

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. KURT VONNEGUT #amwriting #fiction #writelife

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Jon Winokur

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5 years

You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance. GERTRUDE STEIN #amwriting #writelife

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@AdviceToWriters

4 years

I put myself in the character's shoes, talk to myself until something honest comes out, and write it down. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #drama #fiction

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@AdviceToWriters

3 years

You can’t control your legacy; it is determined by who survives. All you can control is the work. Make the best thing you know how. The world will do with it what it will. @lin_manuel #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. ORSON WELLES #screenwriting #writing

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Poets go to bed earliest, followed by short story writers, then novelists. The habits of playwrights are unknown. ANN BEATTIE #writinglife

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

7 years

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA #amwriting #writerslife

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You cannot describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything. JAMES BALDWIN #amwriting #writing #writetip

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

You can’t control your legacy; it is determined by who survives. All you can control is the work. Make the best thing you know how. The world will do with it what it will. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ( @Lin_Manuel ) #amwriting #writelife

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

You can’t control your legacy; it is determined by who survives. All you can control is the work. Make the best thing you know how. The world will do with it what it will. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ( @Lin_Manuel ) #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

8 years

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try 2 write shows where evn the bad guy's got his reasons. @Lin_Manuel

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA #amwriting #writing #writingtips

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. JOAN WALSH ANGLUND #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

8 years

Write hard and clear about what hurts. ERNEST HEMINGWAY #amwriting #writing #writetips

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@AdviceToWriters

4 years

My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH #amwriting #fiction

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. LOUIS L'AMOUR #amwriting #writing #writingtips

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6 years

You can always fix bad pages. You can’t fix no pages. So write. Just write. Try to turn off that voice of doom that paralyzes you. HARLAN COBEN #amwriting #writing #writingtip

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

If I put love into the work, it will find friends. VINCENT van GOGH #art #literature

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language in to such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy. MAYA ANGELOU #amwriting #writing #writetip

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

You cannot describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything. JAMES BALDWIN

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. VIRGINIA WOOLF #amwriting #writing #writelife

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

You can’t control your legacy; it is determined by who survives. All you can control is the work. Make the best thing you know how. The world will do with it what it will. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ( @Lin_Manuel ) #amwriting #writelife

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

An artist's job is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth, we got lucky. AARON SORKIN

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@AdviceToWriters

8 years

Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. JUDY BLUME

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@AdviceToWriters

4 years

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your #story . ORSON WELLES #amwriting #fiction

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

Build us a bridge to where you are. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA #amwriting #writerslife

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7 years

Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck. KIM ADDONIZIO #amwriting #poetry #writingadvice

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Jon Winokur

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8 years

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. MAYA ANGELOU #amwriting

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

If there’s a #book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. TONI MORRISON #amwriting #writerslife

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Jon Winokur

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5 years

Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the #Internet . ANONYMOUS #amwriting #writing

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

The scariest moment is always just before you start. STEPHEN KING #amwriting #fiction #writelife

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@AdviceToWriters

8 years

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. STEPHEN KING #writing #writetips

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@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake. JOHN CLEESE #amwriting #creativity #writingtips

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7 years

Live your life. Live your life. Live your life. MAURICE SENDAK #amwriting #writinglife

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7 years

I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline. DUKE ELLINGTON #composing #writing

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7 years

Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. DORIS LESSING #amwriting #writerslife

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7 years

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration. RALPH KEYES #amwriting

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7 years

The greatest danger is not to set too high a target and miss it, but to set too low a target and reach it. MICHELANGELO #art #literature

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Jon Winokur

@AdviceToWriters

7 years

Write hard and clear about what hurts. ERNEST HEMINGWAY #amwriting #fiction

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

#Poetry , to be understood, must be clear. It mustn't be fancy. I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now, they sort of tap dance through it. I always feel that whatever isn't necessary should not be in the poem. MARY OLIVER #RIP #MaryOliver #amwriting #writing

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@AdviceToWriters

6 years

If you are going to be a writer, there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you’re not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real. JAMES BALDWIN #amwriting #writelife

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6 years

Start #writing . I don't mean to sound dismissive, but START WRITING. There is NO SUCH THING as "too late" in the arts. Trust me. START. @pattonoswalt #amwriting #writerslife

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. VIRGINIA WOOLF #amwriting #writing #writelife

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7 years

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing

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8 years

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. NEIL GAIMAN #amwriting #writerslife

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5 years

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go. JAMES BALDWIN #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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7 years

You can’t use up #creativity . The more you use, the more you have. MAYA ANGELOU #amwriting #writing #writingadvice

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6 years

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. BILLIE HOLIDAY #singing #writing

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5 years

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ANAÏS NIN #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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8 years

What I write is smarter than I am, because I can re-write it. SUSAN SONTAG #amwriting #writing

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7 years

A little talent is...good to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. S. KING

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5 years

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. GEORGE ORWELL #amwriting #writing

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8 years

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. JOHN SCALZI #amwriting #writerslife

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7 years

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. LEONARD COHEN #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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8 years

Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: write to please yourself. HARLAN ELLISON #amwriting #writing

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5 years

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. LORRAINE HANSBERRY #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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6 years

One of the hardest things about #writing #lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there. STEPHEN SONDHEIM

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7 years

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right. CHERYL STRAYED #amwriting #writing

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5 years

If I put love into the work, it will find friends. VINCENT van GOGH #art #literature #painting #writing

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@AdviceToWriters

5 years

Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. DORIS LESSING #amwriting #writerslife

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7 years

Never put off writing until you are better at it. GARY HENDERSON #amwriting #writerslife

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8 years

If you want to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh or they’ll kill you. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW #amwriting #writing #writetips

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7 years

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. SUSAN SONTAG #amwriting #writinglife

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5 years

The most important gift you can give your kids is empathy. It’s the number one tool in an artist’s toolbox. You can’t create #art if you can’t understand what someone else has been through and then try to articulate it. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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Writers get paid for what other people get scolded for: daydreaming. We’re supposed to wander. RICHARD WALTER #amwriting #writing #writinglife

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7 years

I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics. @Lin_Manuel #amwriting #writing #workhabits

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7 years

Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. JUDY BLUME #amwriting #fiction

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5 years

It doesn’t matter how scared you are; everyone is scared. Work. Work is the only thing that takes the curse of fear away. JERRY SALTZ #amwriting #writing #writingtip

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7 years

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. ARTHUR MILLER #amwriting #writerslife

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7 years

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up. TONI MORRISON

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