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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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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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 just write mechanical things.
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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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Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn’t going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed‑dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.
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Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
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I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!
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I want to be crystal clear that everyone has an equal stake in our society and in the future of our country. That is what I believe, and it is what I have always believed.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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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.
