Quotes 41 till 60 of 427.
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
The World According To Garp (2012) -
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
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All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
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All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
The Writer and the World (2012) 225 -
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015) -
And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.
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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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