Akiva Goldsman Quotes, Moving Quotes, Writing Quotes

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

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I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simplicity Quotes

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Voice Quotes

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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