Bernice Rubens Quotes
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
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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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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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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
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To kill nothing, that is love.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA.
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
