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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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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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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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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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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.
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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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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.
