“Every time I’ve had to do journalistic investigations, I’ve cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It’s the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.”
— Italo Calvino
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Quality of Speaking
“The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.”
— Robertson Davies
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Make A Writer…
“Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.”
— Dennis Miller
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Late-Night Absurdity
“You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.”
— Joss Whedon
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This Is Your Job…
“Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can’t quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.”
— Bruce Springsteen
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Task of a Writer
“The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.”
— Thomas Mann
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Explain the Inexplicable
Highly Critical Eye
“A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.”
— Bernard Malamud
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Feel & Show
“It’s always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you’re allowed to say, but this isn’t true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That’s enough.”
— Shel Silverstein
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Don’t Leave Books Unfinished
“As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.”
— Terry Pratchett
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