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I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts. ↗

— Mark Millar

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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. ↗

— Steven Moffat

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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. ↗

— Steven Moffat

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