Judith Krantz Quotes
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
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Turkeys are intelligent, social, curious, and sometimes even funny. I wish people were more like turkeys sometimes. … We're going to have a special celebration for turkeys this November, where we're going to hang out with turkeys, we're not going to eat them, we're just going to kind of chill, hang out, talk with the turkeys, eat a little veggies.
Biz Stone -
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
