“One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.”
— Christopher Nolan
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Write What You Want
Learn How to Rewrite
“I didn’t become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don’t just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.”
— Louis Sachar
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Best Author Will Be…
“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Method of Exhaustion
“I’m a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.”
— Sherman Alexie
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A Good Writer
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Library Made Me Write
“I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.”
— Sandra Cisneros
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Frustrated Writer
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
— Rod Serling
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Love & Irritation
“Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.”
— Louise Erdrich
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Demanding New Ideas
“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”
— Roald Dahl
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