“As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.”
— Neil Gaiman
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Homework Every Night
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
— Lawrence Kasdan
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Basic Elements
“We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.”
— Stephen King
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Insight into Human Nature
“It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator’s skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.”
— William Bernbach
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Writer Spies
“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
— Graham Greene
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No Secret to Success
“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call ‘the breaks.’ In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things – read and write – and wait.”
— Countee Cullen
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Grasping Resonant Symbols
“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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