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The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.
Tom Allen
Rule
Writers
Mercury
Also
Qualities
Ignored
Special
Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.
Tom Bodett
Mine
Tell
Struggling
Writers
Story
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.
Tom Paulin
Life
Good
You
Job
Freelance
Think
Heroic
Other
Something
Gives
Writer
Writers
Feel
Leading
Another
Always
Real
Hand
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.
Tom Wolfe
Time
Good
Technology
People
Post
Three
Living
Good Living
Way
Television
Entertaining
Magazine
Both
Could
Writers
Had
New
Along
Make
Course
Came
Issue
Were
New Way
Stories
Information
Information Technology
Them
Then
Really
Each
Evening
Now
Saturday
Actually
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.
Tom Wolfe
Truth
Somewhere
Become
Older
Think
Worry
Some
About
More
More And More
Writers
Perfectionist
Highly
Read
Because
Get
May
Which
Reputations
Themselves
The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.
Tomi Adeyemi
Day
Knowledge
You
Worth
One Day
Insights
Trip
Writers
Make
Conference
Get
Just
Just One
In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.
Tomi Adeyemi
Work
People
Wish
More
More People
Writers
Knew
Terms
How
How Much
Want
Much
Who
As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there's a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers' success!
Tomi Adeyemi
Success
Love
Alone
Day
Sit
Community
Other
Our
Out
Easy
Writers
Day-Out
Makes
Doing
Hammer
Contributing
Forget
Craft
Us
Really
Whole
Novel
Away
Desk
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
Tony Gilroy
People
Other
About
Writers
Never
Like
Talk
Coming
Behind
Rewriting
Really
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
Tracy Chapman
People
King
Think
Say
Would
Writers
Stephen King
Like
Many
As I've been teaching longer and longer, I realize I learn so much from the voices I'm naturally drawn to, the writers I love on an instinctive level - but I also learn so much from the writers that I have to work to grasp.
Tracy K. Smith
Work
Love
Drawn
Voices
Writers
Instinctive
Longer
Also
Learn
Been
Realize
Much
Teaching
Naturally
Grasp
Level
I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'
Tracy K. Smith
Me
You
People
Speak
Say
Some
Poems
Writers
Like
Go
Hear
Up
Just
Where
Want
Places
Them
Show
Here
James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.
Tracy Pollan
Women
Way
Characters
Writers
He
Female
Female Characters
Understands
Male
Lot
James
Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see, from the producer to the director to the writers to the actors. I think 'Pacific Rim' has been an example of something that illustrates what you get if everyone is driving towards a common purpose.
Travis Beacham
You
Director
People
Example
Half
Think
Everyone
Has-Been
Rim
See
Angles
Something
Purpose
Writers
Driving
Towards
Come
Been
Get
Common
Different
Wanting
Pacific
Producer
Different People
Views
Actor
Illustrate
Dozen
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
Trey Anastasio
Work
Music
Business
Director
Together
Music Director
Everyone
Everything
Collaborative
Writers
Toward
Goal
Same
Vibrant
Work Together
Working
Choreographer
Play
And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
Trish Stratus
Good
Great
Character
Relationship
Change
Creative
Personality
Some
Great Relationship
Writers
Support
Stuff
Great Stuff
Come
Fresh
Up
Forever
Trying
Hold
Team
Keep
Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
Tucker Max
Power
Top
Writers
Stuff
Look
Terms
Scope
Sales
Sell
Very
Curve
Who
I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.
V. E. Schwab
You
Natural
Yourself
Simple
Remember
Build
Think
Add
Complexity
Tempted
Risk
Writers
Most
Readers
Always
Tangled
Lot
Getting
Your
Things
Start
Core
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul
Writing
Oppression
Sit
About
Writers
Talk
Going
Just
Much
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul
Books
Tend
Write
Writers
End
Many
Lives
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
V. S. Naipaul
Life
Experience
Complete
Kind
Able
Some
Life Goes On
Only
Writer
Writers
He
Well
Another
Because
Deal
Goes
Childhood
Processing
Keep
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
Val McDermid
Time
You
Writing
Feeling
Books
Way
Write
Writers
Written
Demanded
Like
Most
Always
Off
Wanted
Your
Start
I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
Vanessa Bayer
Work
Great
People
Year
Other
Once
Once A Year
About
Writers
Had
Know
Although
Always
Been
SNL
Improv
Happens
Theater
Really
Used
Team
Who
Now
Olympic
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
Vanessa Bayer
Jokes
Stage
Group
Every
Table
More
Through
Writers
Ideas
Piece
Around
Goes
Pitches
Rewrite
Where
Sketch
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge
Creative
Science
Will
Other
Dilemma
Perceived
Writers
Science Fiction
Felt
Science Fiction Writers
Endeavors
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany
Writing
Crime
Active
Ottawa
Writers
Hot
Perhaps
Concentration
Involved
Spot
Greatest
Canadian
Anywhere
Published
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