Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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I know who the great poets are.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
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There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
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It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
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I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
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Were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: “Yes, of course.” Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.
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I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.
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I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
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Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.
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Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
