Writing

Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free."

Writing House Freedom Of Speech

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer

Writing

"My kind of director is an actor-director who writes."

Writing Actors Directors

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist

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"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."

Writing Ideas Feelings

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist

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"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."

Writing Mean Order

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist

Writing

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."

Writing History Movement

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Jack Bruce Musician

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"I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together."

Writing Rocks Track

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Oscar Wilde Writer

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"Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?"

Writing Work Masterpiece

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Oscar Wilde Writer

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"I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived."

Writing Knows Meaning Of Life

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Oscar Wilde Writer

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"Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned."

Writing Book Abandoned

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Oscar Wilde Writer

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"Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Writing Book Reading Literature

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Oscar Wilde Writer

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"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."

Writing Book Reading

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

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"When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write."

Writing Clothes Lists

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist

Writing

"I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead."

Writing Way Hate

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision."

Writing Giving Eye

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new."

Writing Fiction Tasks

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

Writing May Novelists

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go."

Writing Book Needs

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark."

Thinking Writing Dark

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Neil Simon Playwright

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"The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose."

Writing Book Firsts

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Neil Simon Playwright

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"Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels."

Writing Hands May

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