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I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny,… — Jason Dohring Copy Share Image
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For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
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It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
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I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
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But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
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