Zal Batmanglij - A novel is both a story and a...

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

Zal Batmanglij

American Director

Born: 1981

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Writing, Both, Piece, Movie, Story, Novel, Filmmaking

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

You Writing Sit Nothing Down Typewriter Bleed

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

Writing Worth Reading Worth Reading Something Write Either

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' Neil deGrasse Tyson

Education Good Thoughts Writing Training World Animals Feelings Reading Other Others Our Earth Would Would-Be Fact Part Empathize Empathy Arithmetic How Were Maybe Different In Fact Formal Formal Education Capacity Should Humans Imagine

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. Robert A. Heinlein

Writing Something Private Hands Afterwards Ashamed Your Wash Necessarily

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. Stephanie Zimbalist

Time You Writing Think Mentally Puzzle Like Makes Stimulating

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon

Man Writing Reading Exact Maketh Ready Conference Full

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing. Steve Martin

Day Me You Writing Editing Light Think Later See Something Only Throw Practicing Always Anyone Decide Whether Meant Meant To Be Moment Away Ever Publishing

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham

Writing Three Rules No-One Knows Unfortunately Novel

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.' Jose Rizal

Life Work Me Generation Writing Will Nighttime Other This Generation Our Books Say Would Could Write Writings Read Understand Am Educated Were Hand Burn Which Ages Asleep Grandparents Whole

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