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When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's… — Harvey Fierstein
I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and… — Harvey Fierstein
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. — Carrie Fisher
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write… — Jonathan Safran Foer
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that… — Jonathan Safran Foer
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit. — Ken Follett
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million… — Shelby Foote
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?… — Mark Haddon
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we… — Charlie Haden
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without… — C S Forester
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt… — Mark Haddon
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. — Mark Haddon
Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I… — Sammy Hagar
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we… — Sammy Hagar
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics. — Eddie Van Halen
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words. — Mohsin Hamid
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron… — Mohsin Hamid
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just… — Oscar Hammerstein II
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think… — Michael Haneke

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