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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. Catherine Drinker Bowen
Reality Writing Mirror Before Living Think Everything Once Kind Writer Always Waits Behind Experiences Which Apart Double Twice
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writing Black Fact Facts Points Red Printed Mixed Fiction Fictional Should Ink Biography
The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer. Catherine Hardwicke
Day Writing Out More Longer Because Tight Six Script Pages Started Thirteen
I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words. Catherine Jinks
Good You Writing Words Money Big Out House Make Always Built Big House Going Much Really Now Actually
Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens. Catherine Ryan Hyde
Work You Creative Writing Try Creative Process Submit Control Think Market Those See More Write Shape Instead True Feel Over Know Fit Target Than May Happens Process Your Who Even Letting Humbly
Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like. Catherine Tate
You Yourself People Writing Comedy Joke Every Second-Guess Write Putting Stuff Like Although Because Audience Line Want Successful Exposing Thing
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me. Catherynne M. Valente
Teacher Me Writing Light Fire Every Took Immediately Tell No Idea Something Only Except Writer Had Idea Doing Stop Different Should Ever Awful
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free. Catherynne M. Valente
Time Legal Book Writing Free Enough Spend Mine About Someone Thrilled Delighted Inspired Free Time Know Piece Read Always Been Loved Reasons Floating Cared
So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it. Catie Curtis
Day Me Writing Guitar Try Enough Once Put Stuff Feels Come Hours Up Five Get Eight Interesting Room Really Keep
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see. Cecelia Ahern
Love Me Creative Writing Feeling Picture Typing Paper Pen Visual See Entire More Scene Write Head Merely Feels Longhand Am Than Process Novels
I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write. Cecelia Ahern
Time Happy Writing Space Write Most Because Am Space And Time Night Need
I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing and any other way I can. Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Rights Writing Money Other Way Voice Support Any Any Other Way Wholeheartedly Presence
I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing. Cecily Strong
Good Great Jokes Writing Twitter Still Short Little Really Thing
I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional. Cecily von Ziegesar
Me People Writing College Picture Chapel Characters Details Physical Borrowed Cast Students Like Also Loop Were Did Where Fictional Story Many Included
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers. Cecily von Ziegesar
Writing Fear Smart Gossip Girl Doctors Become Rich Characters Would Lawyers Writers Had Stereotypical Like Gossip Girl Sound Were Passions Friends Wanted Biggest Interests Multifaceted Filmmakers
Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with. Celeste Ng
You Writing Reading Feeds New Ideas New Ideas Engage Presents
Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style. Celeste Ng
Writing Language Focus Black Style Characters Indian Writers Narrative Itself Stop Chinese Comparing
It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them. Celeste Ng
Work You Yourself People Writing Reading Own Live Worlds Out Easy Stuck Writer Head Affected Forget Get May Just Little Them Create Your Who Deeply
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion. Celeste Ng
Alone Time Writing Words Too Much Own Too Too Much Time Spend Dire Much Your Grows Need
The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one victor. After all, we exist in a world where more kinds of writing than ever are greeted with interest and enthusiasm. Celeste Ng
Writing World Enthusiasm Long Paper Battles Kinds More Only Between Nonfiction Exist Than Short Where Fiction After Which Interest Victor Electronic Ever Competitions
My husband really treats my writing like it's a job - and he reminds me of that when I have those low moments where I think I should just quit and become a waitress. Celeste Ng
Me Writing Job Husband Become Think Those He Reminds Like Waitress Quit Just Where Low Really Should Moments Treats
In my own work, when I start off writing a scene, I don't know which physical details are going to turn out to be meaningful. But, inevitably, certain images will stand out - you start to decide which ones are important as you go. Celeste Ng
Work You Writing Will Important Own Out Details Physical My Own Scene Know Inevitably Go Off Going Decide Which Turn Meaningful Certain Stand Start Images
As soon as I could write, I was writing stories. Celeste Ng
Writing Could Write Soon Stories
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end. Chad Harbach
You Jokes Writing Enjoy Else Worry Out Take No-One Almost Like Private End Going In The End Them Much Fun Nearly Things Amusing
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea. Chad Harbach
Best Writing Parents Seemed Idea Precarious
There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear. Chadwick Boseman
Best Writing Water Mind Nothing Living Enough Hungry Oatmeal Some More Clear Came Off Than Stomach Poor Interestingly Your Stressful
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