Writing

Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

Writing

"In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm."

Writing Editors Austria

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Jane Austen Novelist

Writing

"It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal."

Writing Practice Style

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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright

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"After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting."

Writing Temptation Poison

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

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"I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life."

Writing Trying Kids

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

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"Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing."

Writing Years Hundred

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Jim Harrison Novelist, Poet

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"I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose."

Writing Literature Prose

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Joe Dante Film Director

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"Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort."

Writing Kids Cute

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Joe Pasternak Film Producer

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"You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself."

Writing Couple Work

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Joe Robert Cole Screenwriter

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"I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can connect with him as a person with brown skin who's viewed differently by the world. In terms of his culture, we're thinking about where we are locating Wakanda within the continent, and what the people and history of that region are like. It's a process of investigation to help inform the story at this point. But we are going to be engaged with consultants who are experts on the continent and on African history and politics."

Thinking Writing Character

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Writing

"He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line."

Writing Doe Lines

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John Dean Politician

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"To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable! The fact that a small clique of attorneys in the Department of Justice can write how can we get around the Geneva Conventions so that we can torture during interrogations - I can't even get their mentally. And when you read their briefs, they didn't get there mentally."

Writing President Justice

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John Gardner Author, Educator

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"Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce."

Writing Art Waiting

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John Lennon Musician, Activist

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"And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses."

Writing Music Noses

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer

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"Not without design does God write the music of our lives."

Writing Music Design

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

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"The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind."

Writing Art Mind

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

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"Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music."

Writing Poetry Mathematics

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

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"The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by."

Writing Book Running

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

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"They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book."

Writing Real Book

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

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"The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules."

Writing Simple Offering

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

Writing

"I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background."

Writing Book Character

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