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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
  • Work
  • 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

• I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Writer
  • Pay
  • Wrote

• 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'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

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

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Writer

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

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Inspiration
  • Writer
  • Three

• I'm not a great writer.

  

  E. L. James
  • Great
  • Writer
  • Great Writer

• 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
  • Culture
  • Changed
  • 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
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Changed

• I'm a very conceptual writer.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Conceptual

• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Reading
  • Writer

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

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • First
  • Say
  • Writer

• 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
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Interesting
  • Writer
  • Discovery

• I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wind
  • Figure
  • Nights

• There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

  

  Mike Krzyzewski
  • Communication
  • Caring
  • Fundamentals

• 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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