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I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work. Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Work Finished Other Writers Never Suspect Any Really Creators

My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers. Cecily von Ziegesar

Writing Fear Smart Gossip Girl Doctors Become Rich Characters Would Lawyers Writers Had Stereotypical Like Gossip Girl Sound Were Passions Friends Wanted Biggest Interests Multifaceted Filmmakers

Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources. Celeste Ng

Resources Writers Most Lot Them

I did a lot of weird jobs, like most writers do. Celeste Ng

Jobs Writers Weird Like Most Lot Did

We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions while vigorously ignoring everything else. Chang-Rae Lee

Remember Else Everything Everything Else Distinctive Given Voices Writers Obsessions Over Read Because Passionately Offer While Themselves Perspectives Certain Ignoring

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. Charles Buck

Day Sunday Appropriate Seventh Constantly Ecclesiastical Both Sabbath Sacred Writers Never Name Primitive Although Lord Times Saturday Differently

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong. Charles Bukowski

Writers Put Wrong Editor Up Eternal Ageless Thing

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small. Charles Bukowski

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry. Charles Kelley

Me People Song Met Chemistry Meet Later Randomly Out Would One-Night Some Hustling Week Dave Write Writers Had Songs Instantaneously Over Town Like Hillary Singer She Around Said Nashville Came Been Get Trying Asked Her Night

I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer. Charles McCarry

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky. Charles Murray

Problem Revolution Think Has-Been Some Writers Masculine Knots Tied Around Feminine Feminist Been Male Singular Get Which Using Default

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that? Charlie Murphy

Three Write Writers Most Comedians Act Actor Why

I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone. Charlie Puth

Music Alone Good Great You People Writing Mind Past Other Collaboration Something Write Writers Had Good Writing Opposed Privilege In The Past Use Your Used Why

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I. Charlotte Lamb

When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism. Chelsea Cain

People School Master Assume Say City City People Writers Journalism Iowa Got Grad Grad School Often Workshop Program University

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds. Chelsea Cain

Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories. Cheo Hodari Coker

Opportunity Black Superhero Seldom Write Writers Get Stories

After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages. Cherry Jones

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There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else. Chespirito

People Words Simple Try Pour Important Nothing Else Everyone Say Those Out Possible Tried More Writers Reach Reached Concepts Concise Always Sound Than Anyone Anyone Else Really Who Basically Needed

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