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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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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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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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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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.
