Daphne Gottlieb Quotes
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
J. M. Coetzee -
Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
Ian Doescher -
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del Rey -
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
Hannibal Buress -
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E. L. Doctorow -
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
Kate Atkinson
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
Laura Mvula -
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
Salman Rushdie -
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith -
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw -
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
Kate Atkinson
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance -
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
Karen Bender -
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
Zara Cox -
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Fede Alvarez -
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
A. E. van Vogt -
I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
Gary Ross
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At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting for a part. I was also taking classes at UCB and Groundlings, and at the higher levels, they focus on writing. It was such a relief to be able to write. During those programs, I wrote a one-woman show called Me, Myself, and Iran, and it ended up getting to Tina Fey. She recommended me to audition for SNL, so I got my first of two auditions through her.
Nasim Pedrad -
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal -
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
Natalie Maines -
When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.
Kevin A. Ford -
One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
Daphne Gottlieb