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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination. H. P. Lovecraft
Writing Gentleman Ought Proper Pursuit Never Concluded Accomplishment Discrimination Literature Elegant
I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience. H. W. Brands
Me Writing First Books Some More Written Academia Know Mostly Audience Narrow Were Than Getting Getting Started Interesting Large Large Audience Started
I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I was fairly young and very ambitious. I pitched it to a publisher, who just laughed at me. H. W. Brands
Me History Writing Young States Laughed Had Volumes Fairly Ambitious Very Six Just The History Of Grand Plan Who United United States Publisher
I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events. H. W. Brands
Time History Women Writing Events Strong Long Long Time Characters Finding About High-Profile Write Had Involved Trace Course Because Female Female Characters Leave Been Historical American American History Interesting Public Much Hard Hard Time
I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories. H. W. Brands
History Writing Big Been Lot Stories Little Fascinating
I was writing a lot even as a kid. Hailey Gates
Writing Kid Lot Even
Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change. Hakan Nesser
You Change Creative Writing Creative Process Mind Doors Possibility Windows Open The Doors Process Your Need
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next. Hakan Nesser
Book Writing First About Write Excited Also Reader Where Want Happens While Next
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me. Hallie Ephron
Me Writing Important Sister Everyone Most Terms Important Person Encouraging Person The Most Important Lucky Start Thinks
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read. Hallie Ephron
Jealousy You Happy Book Writing Rule Pointless No-One Read Always Am Sisters Get Published Competitiveness
I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world. Halsey
Me People Writing World Define Details About Environments Like Go Places Create Lets
For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you. Halsey
Me You People Writing Sense Universe Parallel About Above Hotels Like Being Next
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose. Hampton Sides
Me History Age Writing Nine Ten Never Knew Loose Got Hold Loved Turned
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. Hanif Kureishi
Crazy Writing About Obsessive Because Disciplined Always Person
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in. Hanif Kureishi
You Writing Better Sense Guess Say Out Kind Than Them Therapy Things Need
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. Hannah Kent
Love Writing Extraordinary Kind Constantly See Ongoing Poetry Rites Could Particular Qualities Ineffable Trying Burial Whether Iceland Landscape Deep
'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing. Hannah Murray
Good People Writing Young Group Think Teenagers About Come Involved Because Real Lot Up Very Real Place Get Different Place Young People Show Skins Different Things Things Bristol
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories. Hannibal Buress
You Writing Write Sitcom Trying Stories
I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon. Hannibal Buress
Writing Job Year Before Through Got Audition Doing Tape SNL Sent Started
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever. Hans Zimmer
Day You Conversation Director Solitude Writing Somebody Long Picture Whatever Keyboard All Day Hopefully Wrestle Something More Obscure Studio Head Come Like Ideas Still Sounds Gets Done Place Then Shows Away
I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever. Hanya Yanagihara
Work You Writing Job Living Think Writers Never Advances Make Off Fiction Fiction Writers Should Your Grants Ever
I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms. Hanya Yanagihara
Writing Sense Community Group Way Some One-Way More Fact Write No-One Part Name Sort Although May Common In Fact Form Literary Whether Forms Who Many Novel Novelists Larger Two Program
I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did. Hanya Yanagihara
People Writing First Think Tell Something Because Did Anyone Who Found Tedious
Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want. Hanya Yanagihara
You Business Writing Whatever Depend Identity Understand Want Your Income Publishing
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character. Hanya Yanagihara
Character You Writing Think About Only Write Writers Written Fiction The Only Thing Anyone Fiction Writers Then Thing
Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear. Hanya Yanagihara
Work Hope Great Daily Nature You People Writing Speak Interior Gift Fear Live Think Worry Great Gift About Reminded Forced Around How Get Being Novelist Things
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