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  • It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes
  • Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is best for them. Luckily, I come from both a writing background - with 'Workaholics' - and I also act in what I've written.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam DeVine Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. E. Hotchner Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Writing Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Dream Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes