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I think it would be fun to write about movies again. — Bill Condon
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get… — Brian Setzer
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. — Donna Tartt
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. — Donna Tartt
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It… — Hilary Mantel
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. — Rose Tremain
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your… — Rose Tremain
Anyway, these books I love, theyâ€™re all books by menâ€”every last one of them. Because if itâ€™s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to… — Claire Messud
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not. — Michael Ondaatje
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way… — Doris Lessing
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make… — Jonathan Franzen
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed societyâ€”to help solve our contemporary problemsâ€”seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write… — Jonathan Franzen
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area… — Graham Swift
We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write,… — Tom Ford
War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. — Jeffrey Archer
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters.… — Anita Diament
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have… — Jack White

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