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