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More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction. Greg van Eekhout
Work Book Find More Writer Toward Reader Real Climax Than Where Working Satisfaction
I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress. Greta Gerwig
Director Way Could Writer Knew Involved Any Wanted Either Theater Film Actress
When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it. Greta Gerwig
Good Quality Writing Strong Sense Scale Kind Strong Sense Some Small Could Writer Small Scale Had Shared Like Read Felt Any Done Experiences Wanted If I Could Really Even
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Consider Writer Hispanic
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Wise Money Publish Once Write Writer Writes Himself Reader Said Very Author Just Then
I am a writer of fragments. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Fragments Writer Am
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Think All Writers Write Writer Writers He Primarily Like Any Then
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure. Gunter Grass
Reality Political Plant Pure Face Style Distance Must Purity Writer He Like Test Cultivated His Up Artificial Done May Literary Really Certain Show Including Keeps
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. Guy Clark
Good Great Guitar Amazing Several Guitar Player Marvelous Writer He Talent Shawn Known Great Writer Years Just Fiddle Really Player Plays
I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there. Guy Gavriel Kay
Sadness Sense France Complex Some Magic Writer Glamour Feel Know Course Were Who Twenties
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. Guy Johnson
Great Achieve Writer Know Great Writer Still Climb Mountain Desire
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. H. G. Bissinger
Game Inspirations Writer Becoming Board Baseball
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred. H. G. Bissinger
Family Become Holding Seven Paper City Something Sacred Writer Inveterate New Reader Because Were Hand Up Did York New York New York City Grew Loved Newspapers Why
As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers. Haaz Sleiman
Director Focus Writer Same Same Page Producers Page Actor
I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things. Hal Sparks
Writer Like Things Dissecting
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader. Hallgrimur Helgason
Life Book Matter Sense Every Phrase Writer Reader Iceland Lives
I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told. Hallgrimur Helgason
Important Style Kind Writer Just Being Story Who Thinks
I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her. Hallie Ephron
Love Great Wonderful Thought Daughter Collaborate Collaborating Great Fun Would Would-Be Someday Given Writer Sisters Any Molly Fun Her
The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music. Halsey
Music Me First About Writer Show Cool Cool Thing Thing
I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations. Hampton Sides
Work History Job College First Early Work Relations Focused Magazine Memphis Writer First Job Southern Staff Race Race Relations Much Early
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up. Hannibal Buress
Work Writer Wanted
'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up. Hannibal Buress
Monday Meeting Guest Writer Like Traditional SNL Pitch Room Played
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. Hanya Yanagihara
Writer Always Scientist Friends Any Wanted Really
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. Hanya Yanagihara
People Thought Meeting Kinder One Thing Admires More Writer Writers Generally Empathetic Generous Always Least Encounters Than Person Much Successful Page Thing
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. Hanya Yanagihara
Science Interior More Writer Reactionary Because Scientist Than Being Process Much
I'm fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I'm a woman and a feminist. I'm transgender. I'm an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model. Hari Nef
Woman Transgender Impatient Reluctant Ruthless Writer Occasionally Feminist Model Articulate Maybe Little Fun Actress
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