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"All experience helps when you write"
Jerome Lawrence, Playwright
"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken"
Paul Valery, Poet
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why"
James Joyce, Novelist
"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works"
James Joyce, Novelist
"The Declaration of Independence, I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it"
John Adams, President
"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed"
Beth Henley, Playwright
"Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production"
Beth Henley, Playwright
"The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Only in a novel are all things given full play"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze!"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise"
George Will, Journalist
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
"From my close observation of writers... They fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"I regret all of my books"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins"
Jules Renard, Dramatist
"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it and copy it"
Jules Renard, Dramatist
"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort"
William Gibson, Writer
"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred"
Jules Renard, Dramatist
"Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write"
David Ogilvy, Businessman
"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities, and have them relate to other characters living with him"
Mel Brooks, Comedian
"Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before"
Matt Groening, Cartoonist
"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault"
Sheryl Crow, Musician
"Carve every word before you let it fall"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist
"To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"A diary means yes, indeed"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"An audience is always warming, but it must never be necessary to your work"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"Once more, I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write"
Michael Caine, Actor
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas"
Michael Caine, Actor
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