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As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
Melissa de la Cruz
Hope
You
Own
Minds
Characters
Truly
End
Author
In The End
Sparks
Your
My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.
Melvin Van Peebles
Great
Change
Respect
Made
First
France
Feature
Great Respect
Stuff
Author
Your
As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.
Michael Azerrad
Game
Journalist
Fair
Supposed
Fair Game
Another
Soup
Subject
Author
Ingredient
Media
My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.
Michael Connelly
Hope
Saying
Best
Book
Focus
First
Feeling
Favorite
About
Written
Wrote
Coyote
Author
Nostalgic
Full-Time
Last
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.
Michael Dirda
Books
Pleasure
Insight
Some
Scholarly
Simply
Contain
Most
Return
Read
Author
Information
Company
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
Michael Haneke
Love
Patience
Demanding
Looking
Stubborn
True
Know
Also
Because
Question
Author
Get
Want
Screenplays
Working
I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.
Michael Haneke
Work
Challenges
Words
Problems
Seriously
Argument
Think
Films
Other
Through
Emotional
Take
Simplistic
Retreats
His
Author
In Other Words
Psychology
Explain
Little
Viewer
Using
Film
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.
Michael Korda
Run
Faced
Check
Reaction
Bee
His
Normal
Grab
Author
Publisher
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
Michael Lewis
Book
Affection
Out
Beat
He
Almost
Tours
His
Author
Any
Designed
I want people to think of me as a 'Mindset' guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to - I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.
Mike Cernovich
Me
People
Personality
Social Media
Journalist
Think
Mindset
Way
Guy
Got
Commentator
Author
Going
Just
Want
Anything
Social
Far
Far Away
Keep
Media
Keep Going
Away
Filmmaker
The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.
Molly Antopol
Love
You
World
Seriously
Everyone
Characters
Takes
Empathy
Dropped
Feel
Like
Most
Lot
Author
Situations
Just
Where
Different
Stories
Loves
Really
Different World
The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
Nancy A. Collins
Work
Best
Crook
First
Advice
Late
Charges
Writer
Look
Also
Got
Editor
Came
Wagner
Edward
Author
Any
Which
Fantasy
Agent
Your
Karl
Who
Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
Nancy Kress
Every
Drama
Intimate
Characters
Cast
Anna
Editor
Provides
Huge
Author
List
May
Straight
Them
Leo
Requires
Tolstoy
Keep
Two
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
Natsuki Takaya
Thought
Reading
Hey
Draw
Like
Because
Around
Always
Author
Child
Manga
Naturally
I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which was written to the best of my abilities. I panicked. I hesitated to finish the final chapter and went into withdrawal for three years. I decided to pick it up again after I went drinking with author Tim Binding.
Neil Cross
Best
Chapter
Three
Drinking
Final
Panicked
Ability
About
Something
Finish
Pick
Written
Withdrawal
Wrote
Tim
Years
Up
Very
Quickly
Author
Done
After
Decided
In-Between
Realised
Which
Again
Then
Binding
I think of myself as a very lazy author.
Neil Gaiman
Myself
Think
Lazy
Very
Author
I always make a point of keeping the most pleasant-sounding name for the murderer. As he or she is bound to come to an unpleasant end, it seems the very least the author can do.
Ngaio Marsh
Unpleasant
Seems
Point
He
He Or She
Bound
Name
Come
Most
She
Make
Always
Least
End
Very
Author
Keeping
A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.
Nick Harkaway
You
Waiting
Ride
Events
Cheese
Bad
Classes
Perched
Entropy
Lights
Stick
Lot
End
Author
Hard
Lucky
Bright
Basically
It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
Nick Petrie
Subconscious
Thinking
Out
About
He
Author
Interesting
Pops
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
Nicola Cornick
Work
Hard Work
Writing
Every
Find
Finds
Know
Author
Then
Really
Hard
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
Nicole Krauss
Book
Writing
Mystery
He
He Or She
She
Reader
Reads
Inevitably
Author
Going
I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes.
Nigel Barker
Time
Father
Important
Become
Few
Photographer
Find
Minutes
Always
Am
Go
Escape
Author
Being
Things
Filmmaker
Stressful
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
Orson Welles
Too
Moral
Uncomfortable
Points
Always
Lecturer
Author
Get
Social
Ever
Conscious
Stressed
As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
Paolo Bacigalupi
You
Grateful
People
Dangerous
Other
Some
Echo
Supporting
For The People
Author
Really
Who
Chamber
Level
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker
Difficult
Dilemmas
Moral
About
Know
Answer
Bloody
Author
Fiction
Should
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
Pat Robertson
God
You
Independence
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Oath
Muslims
Atheists
Cabinet
Never
Had
He
Know
Well
Because
Said
His
Author
Any
Declaration
Swear
Who
Jefferson
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