John Mortimer Quotes
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
John Mortimer
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick
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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
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw
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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
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
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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 can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
Mal Peet
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown
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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
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua
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Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
Gail Godwin
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.
Marc Ostrofsky
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Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is exactly that. Friendship and love and passion for movies and cartoons and comic books, whatever it is that you love. Most of the way we live our lives involves looking for pleasure and beauty and happiness and affection. Real artists don't use reflexive clichés about things. It's about honoring the reality of people's lives, which defies conventions and clichés and expectations. People are interesting, period.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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I am not the kind of person who makes his bread and butter on how hyped I am. I am an actor, and I do my job.
Barun Sobti
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The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
John Mortimer
