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For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is. Denis Leary
Me Director Song Sometimes Important Before Believe Scene Writers Songs Perfectly Feel Know Cameraman Loud Shoot Shooting Us Really Speakers Rescue Even Helps Actor Play Designed
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up. Denis Norden
Song Money Comedy Finished Pay Added Would Writers Comedians None Material Up Very Get Them Much Certain Paid Use Acts Publishers Amount
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility. Denise Mina
School Filthy Chaos Writers House Occasionally Get Stand Flexibility Lucky Gates
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. Derek Walcott
Heart Writers Parochial Greatest Been Provincial Greatest Writers
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race. Derek Walcott
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Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole. Derek Walcott
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I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. Derrick Bell
Alice Writers Generate Envious Attention Like Readings Go Walker Fiction Fiction Writers Level
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other. Diablo Cody
Woman Women Experience Safety Men Nice Other Out Out Here About Directors Tend Writers Support Know Cling Very Than Trying Vibe Being Where Different Hollywood Us Really Nice Thing Each Thing Here
I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan. Diablo Cody
White Summer Writers Supposed Know Glow Tan Clothing Enhance
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. Diablo Cody
Work Time You Wonderful Live Visible Easily Tell Would Able Writers Well Make Wonderful Time Where Them Your Aspiring
There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today. Diana Gabaldon
Today Time You Think Considered Would Some Shade Someone Temptation Something Point Writers Perfectly Toward Know Always Doing Been Normal Historical Modern Reprehensible View Show Among Things
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. Diane Setterfield
Me Crime Crime Fiction Scandinavian Writers Countries Liking Led Same Fiction Literary Exploring
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
Political Active Think Out Poetry Point Pointing Write Writers Towards Missing Like Always Tradition Question American Politically Which Apolitical American Tradition Even
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun. Dick Van Dyke
Writing Van Writers Had Particular Like Looked Because Said Got Lot Dyke Show Who Fun
I started using this outlet of creativity - you know, going to the studio, writing, meeting these writers and producers - as the best form of representing myself to my fullest potential. Dinah Jane
Best Myself You Creativity Writing Meeting Outlet Potential Writers Studio Know Going Representing Form Producers Fullest Using Started
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life. Dinaw Mengestu
Life Me Emotions World Language Understanding Characters Ability Vital Something Both Writer Writers Most Render Fictional Literature Landscape Original
Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth. Dinaw Mengestu
Work Myself Few Philip Favorite Find Constantly Only Writers Over Name Suppose Most Returning Robinson Edward Forty Roth Whose
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us. Dinaw Mengestu
Other Other Countries Our Those Ourselves Rarely Determined Writers Countries Left Declare Us Asked Roots
To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them. Dino De Laurentiis
Work Best Me Director Try Job First Past Whatever Seventh Some Outline Only Writer Writers Takes Support Make Real Go Very Closely Movie Them Then Producers Star Draft
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. Don DeLillo
Vision Language Ways Structure Writers True Alter Narrative Terror Terrorist Infiltrate Used Aspire Deep Acts Consciousness
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Don DeLillo
Dangerous Considered Writers Jail Repressive Them Many Why Societies
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. Donald Barthelme
War World Everybody More Troubled Writers Since Been Perplexity Laboratory Than American Formal Much American Writers Painters Second World War Second World War
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. Donald E. Westlake
People Doors Farm Every Slick Month Hundreds Magazines Both Writers New Most Readers Been Exist New People The Doors Short Stories Short Stories Used Sealed Many Teams Serve Pulp
I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it. Donald Hall
Love Me Hate Say Write Writers Heard Who
To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! Donald Knuth
Work Future Me Blame Key Law Giving Few Faster Software Machines Out Run Moore More Only More Or Less Writers Like Demise Ideas Looks Pass Trying Us Less Designers Hardware
I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay. Donald Ray Pollock
Gay Indebted Harry William Williams Brown Writers Tennessee Tennessee Williams Also Am Very Southern Just Hannah Barry Larry
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