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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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The language of the street is always strong.

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

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Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

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A writer wastes nothing.

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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

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