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Image of Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.
- Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
Collection: Writing
Image of Julie Powell
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
- Julie Powell
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Image of Julie Powell
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
- Julie Powell
Collection: Writing
Image of Mike White
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
- Mike White
Collection: Writing
Image of Mike White
I feel like I know how to write plot.
- Mike White
Collection: Writing
Image of Mike White
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.
- Mike White
Collection: Writing
Image of V. S. Pritchett
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
- V. S. Pritchett
Collection: Writing
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Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
- V. S. Pritchett
Collection: Writing
Image of Al Jaffee
Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.
- Al Jaffee
Collection: Writing
Image of Al Jaffee
When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.
- Al Jaffee
Collection: Writing
Image of Sissy Spacek
You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
- Sissy Spacek
Collection: Writing
Image of Charles Rumney Samson
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.
- Charles Rumney Samson
Collection: Writing
Image of Dorothea Benton Frank
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
- Dorothea Benton Frank
Collection: Writing
Image of Diana Athill
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.
- Diana Athill
Collection: Writing
Image of Diana Athill
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.
- Diana Athill
Collection: Writing
Image of Ferdie Pacheco
I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.
- Ferdie Pacheco
Collection: Writing
Image of Arthur David Beaty
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.
- Arthur David Beaty
Collection: Writing
Image of Ron Jeffries
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
- Ron Jeffries
Collection: Writing
Image of Dean Dillon
Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.
- Dean Dillon
Collection: Writing
Image of Diablo Cody
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.
- Diablo Cody
Collection: Writing
Image of Rebecca Miller
In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.
- Rebecca Miller
Collection: Writing
Image of Rebecca Miller
When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
- Rebecca Miller
Collection: Writing
Image of Rebecca Miller
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.
- Rebecca Miller
Collection: Writing
Image of Rebecca Miller
I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.
- Rebecca Miller
Collection: Writing
Image of T. J. Miller
Movie is an industry without job security. As soon as a job is done, you have to find a job. But I think doing different stuff makes you better at other stuff: Acting makes you better at stand-up, which makes you better at writing.
- T. J. Miller
Collection: Writing
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy.
- T. J. Miller
Collection: Writing
Image of David Almond
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
- David Almond
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Image of David Almond
Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.
- David Almond
Collection: Writing
Image of Ellen Datlow
Never throw up on an editor.
- Ellen Datlow
Collection: Writing
Image of Harry Kemelman
Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper.
- Harry Kemelman
Collection: Writing
Image of Harry Kemelman
It helps to read the sentence aloud.
- Harry Kemelman
Collection: Writing
Image of Rosy Cole
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.
- Rosy Cole
Collection: Writing
Image of Ingeborg Bachmann
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
- Ingeborg Bachmann
Collection: Writing
Image of Michael Franzese
People going into a business have to have a plan. It's helpful to write it out, even if you're the only one there to see it and execute it. It's your bible. Stick to it, unless things happen in the market that cause you to change your plan. I do that myself.
- Michael Franzese
Collection: Writing
Image of Philip Gulley
Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.
- Philip Gulley
Collection: Writing
Image of Ian Hickson
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
- Ian Hickson
Collection: Writing
Image of Annie Dillard
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
- Annie Dillard
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Image of Ehud Barak
I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.
- Ehud Barak
Collection: Writing
Image of Rachel Gibson
I write romance because I love to read romance.
- Rachel Gibson
Collection: Writing
Image of Julie Dillon
I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill.
- Julie Dillon
Collection: Writing
Image of Irving Thalberg
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.
- Irving Thalberg
Collection: Writing
Image of Irving Thalberg
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.
- Irving Thalberg
Collection: Writing
Image of Sol Stein
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
- Sol Stein
Collection: Writing
Image of Sol Stein
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
- Sol Stein
Collection: Writing
Image of Sol Stein
A writer writes what other people only think.
- Sol Stein
Collection: Writing
Image of Sol Stein
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
- Sol Stein
Collection: Writing
Image of Sol Stein
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.
- Sol Stein
Collection: Writing
Image of Sol Stein
Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.
- Sol Stein
Collection: Writing