Alfred Wainwright Quotes
There is much quiet joy in writing: there is exercise for the imagination, escape from the shackled body, solace for the troubled mind.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
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You can't delegate turning a company around.
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I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.
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Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
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There is much quiet joy in writing: there is exercise for the imagination, escape from the shackled body, solace for the troubled mind.
