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Quote by Marlene van Niekerk

“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.”

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Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author known for her novels that often explore themes of race, gender, and social inequality. Born on November 10, 1954. more

“So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”

“This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.”

“The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.”

Telephones Visitors Destroyers

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.”

Important Tools Notes Filmmaker

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.”

Ifs Men Needs Feels Writing Doe Pleasure Talking Please Busy Shops Too Busy Please Me

Author:William Faulkner

“So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.”

Way Giving Littles Together Chance Nice Comfortable Pages Moved Notes Touched Ceremony

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.”

People Humans Lost Human Beings Accepting Watches Forever Growing Creatures Wings Contribution Curtains Subordination Shuffle Adaptable Curtain Call

Author:Rod Serling

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