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“If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.”

Ifs Writing Wells Audience Bigger Educated Novelists Screenplays Readership

Author:William Monahan

“If you write a song about your feelings, there are no bad songs because they are no bad feelings.”

Feelings Music Feelings And Emotions

Author:Taylor Hahn

Source: A Home for the Holidays

“If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.”

Ifs Way Writing Persons Real Stories Details Trapped Real Person

Author:Caroline B. Cooney

“If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.”

Ifs Writing Stills Lines

Author:Ayn Rand

“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!”

Writing Travel Fatal Flaw

Author:Laurence Bradbury

“If you write about the Asian culture, be accurate between what is the difference between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Thai, Taiwanese, Indonesian, and many individual Asian countries' cultures. While there are many similarities, the differences in cultures will set your novel apart from what is an authentic portrayal to what is a westernized version. - Kailin Gow on Asian Portrayals through Literature and Media”

Writing Authenticity Kailin Gow Asian Philosophy Asian American Cultures

Author:Kailin Gow

“If you write about the dark side of people, you are more likely to be closer to the truth, because people don’t pretend to be dark, nearly as much as they pretend to be good.”

People Writing Humans Darkness Goodness Political Correctness Fake People Hipocrisy

Author:Robert Black

“If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.”

Ifs Writing Wells Fire Like You Originals Oil Adaptation

Author:Brian Helgeland

“If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page. Then don't blame eyes for not able to read.”

Human Nature Stupidity Phylosophy Written Letter

Author:Yaganesh Derasari

“If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.”

Ifs Writing

Author:Rod Serling

“If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things - fish and unicorns and men on horseback - but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightning flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”

Writing

Author:Stephen King

“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.”

Ifs Writing Book Might Romance Culture Names Forget Lucky Paper Pops Lists Ignorant Spells Topics Lit Fascination Pop Culture Chicks New Yorkers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.”

People Ifs Needs Should Writing Enough Journey

Author:Alan Menken

“If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.”

Ifs Way Writing Enough Zero

Author:James Salter

“If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.”

Ifs Writing Moments Given Chance

Author:Nicholson Baker

“If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.”

Ifs Writing Sex Fiction Violence Theme You Like It Fiction Writers

Author:Anthony Burgess

“If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.”

Ifs Writing Whole Certain Fiction Share Loneliness Advantage Lonely Enterprise

Author:Denis Johnson

“If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our very best. Nothing but excellence will do for the young, because the responsibility is greater. We write up for children, never down.”

Writing Children Responsibility Deserve Dignity Excellence

Author:Sally Lloyd-Jones

“If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.”

Ifs Men World Giving Writing May Littles Wisdom Joy Wish Money Written Minutes Ten Noise Reaching Theologian Disgusted

Author:Thomas Merton

Source: Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing

“If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.”

Ifs Writing Critics

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Kind Reader Grammar New Yorkers

Author:Louis Menand

“If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.”

People Ifs Want Writing

Author:William Zinsser

“If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.”

Ifs Writing Fiction Reader Genre

Author:Yann Martel

“If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.”

Ifs Writing Lasts Song Emotion Keys

Author:Elton John

“If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.”

Ifs Writing Literature Knowing Reader Expectations Categories Framework

Author:Nora Roberts

“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.”

Writing Philosophy Publishing

Author:Patrick Nowell-Smith

“If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.”

Ifs Writing Laughing Player Paper League Best Players Stink

Author:Derrek Lee

“If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.”

People Ifs Writing Play Actors Interesting Roles Contradiction Nuance

Author:Paul Schrader

“If you write it down, you can make it happen.”

Inspirational Happiness Women

Author:Staness Jonekos

“If you write "judgement" you should also write "colour" and "tyre.”

American English

Author:Paul Brians

“If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.”

Ifs Writing Hurt Creative Blame Memoir Be Creative

Author:Dani Shapiro

“If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.”

People Ifs Men Writing Firsts Bigs Voice White Interesting Happened Accounts Historical Establishment Nonfiction White Man Really Interesting Umbrella

Author:Isabel Allende

“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”

Ifs Writing May Stories Hundred Favors Odds Fiction Writing Writers And Writing Fiction Writers Novel Writing Writing Fiction Writing By Writers Story Writing Writing Stories Creativity And Writing Story Writers Bad Writing

Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.”

Ifs Writing Fall Materials Tricks Fall Into Place

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.”

Ifs Writing Hands Pleasure Materials Guilty These Days Satire Depressing Guilty Pleasure

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become convinced that they are right (though you are not to be ashamed or discouraged for a minute, but keep on writing).”

Ifs Thinking Writing May Minutes Critics Convinced Ashamed Editors Discouraged

Author:Brenda Ueland

Source: If You Want to Write

“If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night; sometimes, I've looked back at things I wrote the night before, and realized they were no good at all.”

Ifs Writing Looks Self Sometimes Night Next Morning Critical Evening Over It

Author:Mark-Anthony Turnage

“If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Loss Results Office Paper Messages Consequence Response Access Commit Magazines Boss Reporters Candor

Author:Ron Suskind

“If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again”

Ifs Writing Today House White Like You White House You Again

Author:Ron Suskind

“If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.”

Ifs Writing Enough Glad

Author:Larry Wall

“If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.”

Ifs Writing Heart Song Honest Honesty Pops Sincere Pop Music

Author:Jon Secada

“If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Song Sound Corny

Author:Fred Frith

“If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.”

“If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.”

Ifs Men Writing Might Fiction Mystery Horror Thrillers Speculative Fiction

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”

Ifs Writing Be Good Impress

Author:Thornton Wilder

“If you write to please everyone, you plant nothing. If you write from truth, you seed a forest.”

Writing Inspiration Truth Creativity Courage Authenticity Writing Advice Self Expression Artistic Integrity Writers Wisdom

Author:Lawrence Nault

“If you write to us," Luka had said with tears in his eyes, "don't ever sign your name or send an address.”

Separation Of Families

Author:Courtney Angela Brkic

Source: The First Rule of Swimming

“If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.”

Ifs Writing Wells Dresses

Author:James Dickey

“If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stories Sex Party Groups Safe Finance Nervous Territory Edgy

Author:Maeve Binchy

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”

Ifs Writing Passion Style

Author:Dean Koontz

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