I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different… — James Salter Copy Share Image
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To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to… — Don Helms Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job.… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
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Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
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“Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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![“[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.” quote by Baron Vaughn](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ea7/baron-vaughn-6620_believe_harold-pinter-is-a-british-playwright-an_375878.jpg)
![“I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.” quote by Elizabeth Crook](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/885/elizabeth-crook-23711_changed_i-changed-my-hopes-to-being-a-singer-whe_575894.jpg)
