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That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written… — Justin Cronin
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well… — Justin Cronin
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book. — Malcolm Cowley
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their… — Justin Cronin
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. — Sloane Crosley
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in… — Sloane Crosley
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving… — Sloane Crosley
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would… — Sloane Crosley
I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life.… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common… — Rachel Cusk
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates… — Rachel Cusk
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material… — Rachel Cusk
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In… — Rachel Cusk
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm… — Billy Ray Cyrus
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. — Clarence Darrow
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin
For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It… — Chris Daughtry
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's… — Larry David
I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they… — Eric Davis
It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write. — Evan Davis
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old… — Mac Davis
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material. — John Deacon
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. — John Deacon

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