Writing

Joyce Maynard Author, Journalist

Writing

"When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material."

Writing Running Drama

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Joyce Maynard Author, Journalist

Writing

"As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets."

Writing Lying Simple

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Judith Martin Poet

Writing

"Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?"

Writing World Children

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Judith Martin Poet

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"It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother."

Writing Mother Letters

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Judith Martin Poet

Writing

"The truly essential bargain between host and guest requires the guest only to respond promptly, show up on time, socialize with other guests, thank the host, write additional thanks and reciprocate. You needn't bring anything."

Writing Women Guests

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Jules Renard Writer

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"It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country."

Writing Country Inspiration

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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality

Writing

"Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story."

Writing Stories Recipes

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Julia Stone Musician, Singer

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"When I'm writing a song, things are always popping into my head, it's not so direct. It feels more like I'm in a room and there's this whole big jumble of clothes on the floor and it's like choosing what to wear. There are a lot of different things in there and you kind of pull something out and think, "No, that's not right," or you're like, "Yes I'll put this on with this.""

Thinking Writing Song

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Julian Barnes Author

Writing

"I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind."

Writing Fall Grief

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Julian Barnes Author

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"I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people."

People Writing Ideas

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Julian Barnes Author

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"Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?"

Writing Book Doe

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Julian Barnes Author

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"Irony ... may be defined as what people miss."

People Writing Missing

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Julian Barnes Author

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"I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form."

Thinking Writing Ideas

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Julian Barnes Author

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"Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time."

Writing Literature Realizing

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Julian Barnes Author

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"The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?"

Writing Years Dark

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Juliette Lewis Actress, Producer

Writing

"When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to you and then helping you write songs that are you, that bring the most of what you are out, whereas a lot of producers might put their stamp on you. I gained confidence because I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist."

Writing Song Artist

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Juliette Lewis Actress, Producer

Writing

"I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls."

Writing Song Emotional

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June Jordan Poet, Activist

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"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet"

Writing Important Language

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Julien Green Novelist, Playwright

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"Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer."

Writing Lying Drama

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Julien Green Novelist, Playwright

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"Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write."

Writing Book Christian

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