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What works for one writer may not work for another. There are as many methods as there are writers. Were you to live to a grand old age, you would still never have enough time to try them all. Antony Johnston
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My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner. Antonya Nelson
Generation Father First Master Become Faulkner William Find Writers Faculty Columbia He Part Columbia University Look Wrote Read Because His Oversee American Anybody Lit Canon Forties Thesis Among University
I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft. Antonya Nelson
Work Me People Writing Listening Own Energy Other Approach Way About My Own Gives Writers Taking Weird Like Talk Always Hearing Craft Just Fiction Notes
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society. Aravind Adiga
Time Great Me World Try Important Society Changes India Brutal Through Writers Highlight Like Likely West Going China Inherit Injustices
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. Ariel Dorfman
Country Physically Mentally Writers Emotionally Most Leave Left Who
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it. Arthur Herzog
Omniscient Approach Easiest Select Writers Main Advantage Major Handle Reason Many
'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty. Artie Lange
Sports World Too Way High Writers Takes Course Itself Mighty Serious
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has. Arundhati Roy
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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Arundhati Roy
Silence Nation Minds Writers Pity Speaking
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. Athanasius
Life Mind First Own Approach Must Similarly Sacred Writers Cleanse Wishes Understand Saints His Anyone Who Deeds Copying
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many. Avi
Me Book Made First Affection Enormous Other Definitely Detective Writer Writers Raymond Like Read Reader Falcon Led Impression Author American Fiction McDonald Many American Writers Among
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer. Avi
Writing Reading Books Kid Week Write Writer Writers Read Became How Five Four
I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect. Ayobami Adebayo
Nature Me Alien Think Universe Admired Something Perfect Onto Writers Had Prose Most Caused Inaccessible Page Used Special Connection Published Flow Muse
I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture. B. J. Novak
Thought Big Gesture Nice Busy Too Our Way Our Lives Wear Guys Writers Like Daytona Got Were Lot Upgrade Office Get Middle Big Way Room Really Lives Watch Symbolic
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. Barbara Walters
World Writers Also Readers May Full
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. Barry Eisler
Pretty Poetry Inspired Writers Read Non-Fiction Been Influenced Fiction Number
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. Barry Hannah
Sad Angry Men Every Consider Thoughtful Out Bad Some About Writers Written Major Mostly Narcissistic Line Review Reviews Than Afternoon Less Who Even Found Why Treason Early
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had. Barry Hannah
Music Me You Writing Think Mediums Musical Phrases Some Give Writers Had Well Always Doing Get Curiously Essential Different Them Sentences Ever Two
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people. Barry Lopez
Faith Time People Long Long Time Living Other Meet Those Colleagues Writers Put Journalists Make Doing Been Trying Us Aware
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. Barry Mann
Waiting Fear Wait Think Inspired Write Writers Most Until Just Who
When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with. Bebe Rexha
Song World Big Out Kinda Writers Had Because Big Hit Hit Hanging Really
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others. Ben Brantley
Conversation Mind Criticism Own Enjoy Think Others My Own Writers Like Read Least Stimulate Personally Function Serve
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes. Ben Dolnick
Work People Other Interviews Nuts More Writers Readily How Inevitably Very Than Literary Little Packed Aspiring Fling Bolts
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. Ben Fountain
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Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche. Ben Hecht
Art Will Men Guard Carried Directors Writers Heads Noisy Cliche Unusual Trusted Task Any Against Subversive Producers Who Keep Away Presence
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. Ben Kingsley
Great Characters Writers True Behaviour Human Human Behaviour Root
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