Quotes 41 till 60 of 271.
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Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
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Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
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As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
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As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
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As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
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But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Faceboek (2013)
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