Essays Quote by Diablo Cody Download Open image “For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.” — Diablo Cody ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essays Fiction Prose Self Self indulgent Way Writing Writing essays
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied. — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with trays of… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
This is for the writers. I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
