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.Elizabeth Gaskell
Quotes to Explore
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen -
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.
Barry Unsworth -
'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.
Lance Reddick -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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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.
Ice Cube -
I'm a very conceptual writer.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
Vikas Swarup -
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Octavia E. Butler -
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer -
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah
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I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
Linda Ronstadt -
I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.
Jack Dangermond -
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
Damon Galgut -
I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
Little Richard -
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.
Elizabeth Gaskell