“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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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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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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Not A Bad Thing
“It’s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – we’re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.”
— Neil Gaiman
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