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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

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I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

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It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

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I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

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I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

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I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

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We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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Writers will happen in the best of families

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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
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I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

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Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

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I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

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Our political decisions are only as sound as all voices that make them — the youth, the elderly, businessmen and women, artisans, the clergy, activists, writers and petty traders.

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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

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Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Writers Rarely Best Critics
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