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«Choose an author as you choose a friend.»
«Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance»
Author: Dan Greenburg
| About:
Cats,
Writers
| Keywords:
avoidance, CAT, cats, companions, method, near, perfect, this method, watching, writers, writing
«A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
| About:
Communication,
Writers
| Keywords:
communicate, driven, writes
«But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.»
«Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.»
Author: Alice Walker
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
Bad art, bad person, deliver, Deliver Me, Good Book, Not sure, They Live
«A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy»
«Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Expectation,
Writers
| Keywords:
backward, Commissions, dared, down the stairs, first flight, flight, flight of stairs, jean, stairs, suit
«Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Writers
| Keywords:
craft, crafted, crafts, Everything or Nothing, fiction writer, Nothing to say, tricks
«Even the best writer has to erase»
«A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
Lack of imagination, observation, supply, The Others, writer
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