Jessamyn West Quotes
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
Hannah Murray -
All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
J. M. Coetzee -
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Karen Joy Fowler -
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
Beck -
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Patrick White -
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri -
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 -
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 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 -
When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
Sadie Jones -
The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
Patrick deWitt -
I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
Sally Kirkland -
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
Vikas Swarup -
And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
Taylor Kitsch -
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan -
When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
Jack Dorsey
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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
Amanda Peet -
A lot of the magic that is behind success can be unlocked through mentorships. Mentorships are a fundamental part of the success equation.
Caroline Ghosn -
It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?
Liam Gallagher Oasis -
If you try singling me out to my mother, she'll be down your throat. She has three sons, and she's equally proud of us all.
Lee Pearson -
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West