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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

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• I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

  

  Sally Field
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  • Changed
  • Studio

• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movies
  • Writer
  • Employee

• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Hair
  • Writer
  • Just

• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Way
  • Writer
  • Own

• I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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  • Famous
  • Writer

• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Inspiration
  • Writer
  • Three

• If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • Kind
  • Writer
  • Lives

• Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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  • Software

• 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
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Chance

• Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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  • Movies
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• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • First
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• I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Hand

• 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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  • Regret

• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Sense
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  • Fascinating

• I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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  • Though
  • Travelled

• I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Learn
  • Writer
  • Source

• It's difficult to give one person an advantage over another because they were displaced by the hurricane. Someone locally may have lost their job, too, because their business shut down because of the hurricane.

  

  Angela Griffin
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  • Hurricane

• I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

  

  Jenny Mollen
  • Truth
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  • Tell

• The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

  

  Joshua Slocum
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