Tag: writers
Career of a Writer
“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”
— Paulo Coelho
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Imagination & Precision
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Participant: The Writer
“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
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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…
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
Misunderstood Disturbance
“To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”
— Anatole Broyard
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