Writing

Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

Writing

"Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it."

Writing Sometimes Flow

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

Writing

"I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?"

Writing Years Long

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

Writing

"With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for."

Thinking Writing Spirit

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

Writing

"Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting."

Writing Interesting Acting

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist

Writing

"Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness."

Writing Stars Depression

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist

Writing

"I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing."

Writing Feels Vulnerable

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Rupert Holmes Singer-Songwriter

Writing

"I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited."

Thinking Writing Interesting

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Rupert Holmes Singer-Songwriter

Writing

"Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize."

Writing Song Cab Drivers

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Ruskin Bond Author

Writing

"When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block."

Writing Block Paper

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Ruskin Bond Author

Writing

"When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages."

Writing Long Character

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Russell Banks Novelist

Writing

"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."

People Writing Care

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Russell Baker Writer

Writing

"A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film."

Writing Father Exercise

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Russell Baker Writer

Writing

"There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance."

People Writing Literature

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Russell Banks Novelist

Writing

"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."

Writing Intelligent Honest

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Russell Banks Novelist

Writing

"The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it."

Writing Book Perfect

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Russell Freedman Author, Historian

Writing

"Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience."

Writing Kids Special

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Russell Freedman Author, Historian

Writing

"Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or from a Lincoln scholar writing an academic book on Lincoln. Each of these writers has a different audience and different goals. That's obvious."

Writing Book Responsibility

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Russell Freedman Author, Historian

Writing

"I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, you're trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect."

People Writing Effort

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Russell Freedman Author, Historian

Writing

"I'd like to ask Eleanor Roosevelt what she regrets most, because I think that might reveal something that I didn't catch on to while I was writing my book and, hopefully, that would start a conversation."

Writing Book Regret

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Russell Freedman Author, Historian

Writing

"Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you find compelling evidence that departs from the accepted wisdom. A biography for young people calls for the demanding art of distillation, the art of storytelling, and your responsibility is to stick as closely as possible to the documented record."

Writing Art Responsibility

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