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I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous. Dorian Missick
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. Doris Lessing
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If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me! Dorothea Benton Frank
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The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful. Dorothy Allison
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One of my favorite things about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is the creative environment that has been designed for us by our lovely director, producers, and writers. Dove Cameron
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Around 2008 when the writers' strike happened, all my stuff was getting stuck in development, and I thought, 'I'm going to try my hand at horror because I always loved it as a kid.' Drew Daywalt
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In OVW, it was like a different world, pretty much. They had the talent ready to stay around for a while, with guys who weren't over yet and guys who weren't retiring yet. With FCW, WWE were a bit more hands-on with the writers. Drew McIntyre
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Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud. Dustin Yellin
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I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets. Dylan Moran
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it. E. L. Doctorow
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. E. L. Doctorow
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. Ed Koch
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it. Eddie Cahill
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It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers. Edgar Wright
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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. Edmund White
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There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear. Eduardo Galeano
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Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings. Edward Hirsch
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Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. Edwin Morgan
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I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel. El DeBarge
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About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length. Elaine Pagels
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In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. Eleanor Catton
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I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. Eleanor Catton
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People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. Elif Batuman
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Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read in peace. Elin Hilderbrand
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I think the writers of 'Community' have moved on from my character. I'm pretty sure. I would love to go back on. I had a really good time and I really liked that character, but I don't think it's going to happen. Eliza Coupe
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. Elizabeth Berg
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