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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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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 body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
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For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
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Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve the poor than they have of your service.
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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.
