Writing Material Quotes
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
— Rodney Dangerfield
I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
— Jackee Harry
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.
— Sybille Bedford
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
— William Zinsser
If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others ... Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.
— Rodney Crowell
A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.
— Sara Sheridan
Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material.
— A.D. Posey
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.
— Cary Fukunaga
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
— James Joyce
I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.
— Chris Hardwick
I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
— Kaci Brown
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
— Jack Vance
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
— Sara Sheridan
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
— Richard Rhodes
Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.
— Joyce Rachelle
The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.
— Beverly Lowry
I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.
— Rhys Thomas
From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.
— Emeli Sande
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.
— Dan Fogelberg
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
— Nick Offerman
To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.
— Rebecca Solnit
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
— Miriam Toews
It's not pain. It's raw material.
— Jo Bell
I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
— Laura Benanti
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
— Chris Matakas
Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.
— Sara Sheridan
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
— Wallace Stegner
Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
— Sara Sheridan
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
— Alex Haley
You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.
— Felipe Esparza
Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
— Sara Sheridan
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.
— Daniel Tosh
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
— Alexander Payne
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
— Neil Gaiman
