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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"Be ruthless about protecting writing days."

Writing Mushrooms Ruthless

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them."

Thinking Writing Ideas

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on."

Writing Hands Reading

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing."

Writing Movement Vehicle

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind."

Writing Children Kids

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

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"No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing."

Writing Couple Sacrifice

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter."

Writing Want Potters

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother."

Writing Eye Mother

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss."

Writing Burning Eagles

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Haile Gerima Filmmaker

Writing

"When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence."

Writing Names Venice

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

Writing

"Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it."

Writing Book Ought

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

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"I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen."

Writing Book Night

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

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"One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual."

Writing Skins Scar

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

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"Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed."

Writing Heart Eye

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Zachary Cole Smith Musician

Writing

"I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from."

Writing School Important

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them."

Thinking Writing Opposites

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice, Jurist, Author

Writing

"Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement."

Writing Lonely Research

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter

Writing

"I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature."

Writing Directors Track

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Madonna Ciccone Singer

Writing

"When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories."

People Writing Stories

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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter

Writing

"Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you"

Writing Inspiration Baths

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