“The writer must be a participant in the scene… like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Hooked On Quotes
A Writer’s Soul
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
— Virginia Woolf
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As You Wish…
Lose Yourself
“The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you’re hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.”
— George R. R. Martin
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Frost on Style
“Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.”
— Robert Frost
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Don’t Quit
Under the Skin
“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
— Mel Brooks
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Hold the Illusion
“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”
— John Steinbeck
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Engineer of Souls
A Writer Is…
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
— Thomas Mann
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