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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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