Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems?..I gotta get my life some writers.
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Well, I'd say that the minute sound came in, it was everybody talking their heads off and going for dialogue laughs. All your writers did the same thing. Once that started, it took years to ever get anybody even to touch that old type of material again
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
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I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it.
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A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.
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When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.
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The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said
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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
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Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you<br/>need at least four of them, and they need to be rotated every 5,000 miles.
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I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
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Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
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I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters
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Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible
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