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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man. Karin Slaughter
Man Women Hero Manly Weak Some Tendency Writers Like Looks Make Male Stories Rescue Among Needing
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. Karin Slaughter
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it. Karin Slaughter
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. Karin Slaughter
Country Community Every Kind Writers Readers Always Up Stood Across
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Water Books Drink Absolute Writers Like Make Dogs References Germany Infinite Which Who Even
Nobody can write stories like Malayalam writers. Karthi
Write Writers Nobody Like Stories
The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs. Kaskade
Music Dance Stars Dance Music Writers Becoming Much Producers
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane. Kate Atkinson
Great Me Other Say Insane Would Would-Be Totally Writers Look Being Published
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams. Kate Bernheimer
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable. Kate Braverman
Women Complicated Men Characters Critics Unpredictable Threatening More Writers Industry Wives Male Women Writers Want Interested Challenging Publishing Presenting
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum. Kate Braverman
Soul Women Ghetto Characters Kind Find Writers Operating Within Narrow Trying Confines Inherit Spectrum
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on. Kate Christensen
Writers Attention Invisible Between Balancing Always Going Artists Wanting Center Act Watch
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked. Kate Christensen
Great Living Ghosts City Constant Ongoing Writers Had New Pilgrimage Years Walked York New York New York City Where Literary Lived Among
I work with some of the funniest writers in the country. Kate McKinnon
Work Country Some Writers Funniest
I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library. Kate Thompson
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying. Kate Thompson
Time You Kind Give More Writers Always Get Want Them Agents Publicity Publishers
I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe. Katherine Boo
Love Stupid Meet Writers Go Useless Awe
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede. Katherine Dunn
Work Worms Writers Metaphor Lot Closer Northwest Artists Then Below
Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to include, but what to leave out. Kathleen Flinn
You Writing Will Out Tell Memoir Writers Part Most Leave Include Hardest Hardest Part
Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't. Kathleen Turner
Women Men More Directors Writers Expect Get Us Producers Should Why
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right. Kathy Reichs
Science Writers Put Get Fiction Fiction Writers Who Many Right
I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias. Katie Kitamura
Love Language Writers Like Lot Spanish Really
There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room. Kay Cannon
Three Kind Guys Only Writer Writers Female Still Any Maybe Room Two
Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down. Kay Cannon
Writing Judge Try Sit Down Out Write Writers Put Putting Always Just Crap Might Who
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. Kazuo Ishiguro
Life Writing Face Become Difficult Think Side Promotion Something Having More Writer Writers Balancing Lot Public Much Now
Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot of animated features, there are a lot of writers who don't get credited. It's the policy at Disney, for instance, in deciding who gets credit. It depends on the writer's contract, so many things. Kelly Asbury
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