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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. Rita Dove
People Live Be Real Could Writers Never Knew Know Because Real Any
I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it. Rob Riggle
Me Respect Director Try Bit Definitely Okay Writers Fellow Because Stick Always Want Script Little Little Bit Then Actor Play Playing
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business. Robert Ben Garant
Art You Business Writing Kind Some Magic Writers Like Talk Hear Lot Therapy
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought. Robert Burns
Political Thought Men Seen Few Manners Willing Moral Ability Classes Some Admit Poetical Writers Am Very Chiefly Any May Common Different Either Which Acquainted Mankind Originality Whom Among Assist
I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction. Robert Crais
Time You Crime Long Long Time Trapped Crime Fiction Secretly Find Bet Writers Long Time Ago Feel Know Read Lot Where Fiction Literary Place Themselves Really Who Fun Now Awful Right Awful Lot Started
As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they are actors or writers or producers or directors, and they will tell you that they'd love to play a Bond baddie. I can go anywhere in the world and I am known; it put me on the international map. Robert Davi
Love Me You Entertainment World Will Kid Tell Directors Writers Put Known Am Go Friends Any Wanted Whether Either Anywhere Ask Producers International Map Villain Actor Play Bond
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. Robert E. Howard
Education Art Me Culture Writing Virtue Slip Seems Writers Environments Because Many
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write. Robert E. Howard
Book Writing Advice Year Aid Neither Write Writers Never Had Studied Until Read Courses Advising How Nor Anybody Expert
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. Robert Frost
Music Alone Myself Sense Out Writers Make Call Sound May English Set
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing. Robert Gottlieb
World Will Both Writers Exciting New Terrific Authors Established Format Forth View Many Publishing Bring
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. Robert Gottlieb
Insecure More Writers Most Vulnerable Than Graham Kay
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. Robert Green Ingersoll
Great Man Mind Wish Please Great Man Gives Writers Individuality True Most Suppress His Public Who Fascinates
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. Robert Green Ingersoll
Great Become Rule Writers Authors Children
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. Robert Harris
Life Politics Complicated Other About More Area Tend Writers Simplistic Journalists Like
I think there's a lot of writers who took rock music more seriously: Greil Marcus, Jon Landau. Robert Hilburn
Music Seriously Think Took More Writers Jon Rock Rock Music Lot Who
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. Robert J. Sawyer
People Own Just Be Complex Point Point Of View Writers Real Motivations Contradictory Real People Just View
You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers. Robert J. Sawyer
You Black Made Fall Gone Universe Finality Black Hole Writers Irresistible Hole
What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader. Robert J. Sawyer
Love Beautiful Time Language Other Evocative Would Phrases Haunting Writers Had Most Reader Stick Description
There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted. Robert J. Sawyer
Science Three First Preaching Those Clarke Magazines Writers Ray Ray Bradbury Major Robert Principally Isaac Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Were Arthur Fiction Fiction Writers Converted Asimov Published Four
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein
Me Old Sense Think Some About Writers Written Between New Said Link Articles Legitimate Certain
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Robert Morgan
Decision Made Reading More Poetry Write Writers No-One Prose Instead Almost Readers Narrative Verse Than Interested
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. Robert Morgan
You Young Think Something Poetry Writers Encourage Very Essence Taught Them Young Writers Teach
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start. Robert Morgan
Family Young Everyone Find About Only Take Writers Almost Almost Everyone Since Off Subjects Often Stories Place Young Writers Start
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. Robert Silverberg
Science Met Writers Never Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Hand List Famous Fiction Fiction Writers
When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like. Robert Webb
Me Superior Mistakes Those Adopt Writers Like Clip Very Persona Any Movie Sarcastic Shows Things Present
The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image of me... you do it because I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm proud to be Puerto Rican. Roberto Clemente
Me You Better Black Bad Stay Writers Like Know Because Proud Trying Rican Create Farther Why Away Image Puerto Puerto Rican
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