Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I'm not a great writer.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
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Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.
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I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
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Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?
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Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.
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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
