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I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
The way that I write is I just write a ton of music in the background of my life, and then I… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period. — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
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I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
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For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
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You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap. — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
If anything this is one of the better ways to write together and not get stuck in the studio. Its a really… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they… — John Conrad Copy Share Image
I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Initially, I'd written a normal love song. Later, I wrote Corona Kannala.' I say cheesy because we used a lot of contemporary… — Vignesh Shivan Copy Share Image
The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman,… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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