Barbara Holland Quotes
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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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.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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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.
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The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.
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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
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You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
