Mordecai Richler Quotes
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
Mordecai Richler
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
A. E. van Vogt
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua
Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
Kate Klise
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
Mal Peet
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
Ville Valo
HIM
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
E. L. Konigsburg
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
E. L. Konigsburg
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
Umberto Eco
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
Otis Blackwell
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.
Homer Hickam
You've got your whole life to do something,And that's not very long.So why don't you give me a callWhen you're willing to fightFor what you think is real,For what you think is right.
Ani DiFranco
Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.
Kathi Appelt
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.
Eric Shinseki
Above all, words must be recognized as symbolic pointers to truth, not objective containers of truth.
John Shelby Spong
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
Mordecai Richler
