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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer. Dan Futterman
Pretend Writer Anything Actor
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas. Dan Jenkins
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I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously. Dana Loesch
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life. Dana Spiotta
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer. Dana Stabenow
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I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I'm a writer, I pay very keen attention to their vision. I find that so fueling creatively because, in telling those stories, you use everything you've got. You come away with battle scars. It's gratifying and invigorating. Danai Gurira
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. Dane Cook
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers. Dani Shapiro
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' Dani Shapiro
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. Daniel Alarcon
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern. Daniel Alarcon
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer. Daniel Clowes
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. Daniel Goldstein
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I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself. Daniel Radcliffe
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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence. Daniel Tammet
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I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook. Daniel Woodrell
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I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can. Daniel Woodrell
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When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer. Danny Masterson
You Communicate Sometimes Easier Boss Writer Another Understand How Than Just Your Actor
Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.' Darin Strauss
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In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative. Darin Strauss
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In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene. Darin Strauss
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A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects. Darin Strauss
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Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat. Darin Strauss
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I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul. Darin Strauss
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As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes. Darren Star
Yourself Shoes Else Someone Writer Always Fun Imagine
'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense. Darryl Pinckney
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