#write

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Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.


John Phillips


#case #holds #sing #songwriters #traditionally

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.


Michael Phelps


#get #greats #guess #history #i

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.


Leon Uris


#heavy #honest #i #jockey #producer

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.


Edgar Allan Poe


#cat #could #i #i wish #mysterious

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.


Amy Poehler


#character #characters #down #five #like

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.


Frederik Pohl


#block #cigarette #computer #did #down

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.


Jerry Pournelle


#early #ever #fiction #fiction writers #first

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.


Jerry Pournelle


#away #going #i #i think #make

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?


Jerry Pournelle


#ass #better #chair #club #down

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.


Jerry Pournelle


#around #changed #clubs #coffee #finish