Davy Rothbart Quotes
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I love writing songs.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
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I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
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By surpassing writing, we have regained our wholeness, not on a national or cultural but cosmic plane.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
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On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.
