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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.”

Ifs Way Writing Looks Film Rooms Novel Produce Huge Cold Cost Mountain Disparity Cold Mountain

Author:Anthony Minghella

“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.”

Thinking Way Writing Helping Stories Worry Issues Cost Projects Direct Productions Do The Best Constraints

Author:Jose Padilha

“Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.”

Writing Cost Mythology Servant Officials

Author:Tobias Wolff

“Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source: Silences

“If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.”

Ifs Writing Wells I Can Done Play Three Hours My Own Five One Day Cost Mood Well Being Lunch Going Out Worth It Days Off Not Worth It

Author:Danielle Steel

“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

Way Writing Pay Months Cost Expected My Way Apartment

Author:A. E. van Vogt

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.”

Feels Writing Trying May Book Ideas Common Written Trouble Worst Cost Remains Presses No Idea Alas Correcting

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843

“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”

“Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”

Feels Writing Form Cost Theater Guilty Dramatic

Book:Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman

“It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.”

Ifs Giving Writing Shows Process Simple Steps Missing Example Masters Amount Internet Discipline Cost Organization Down And Enormous Marketers Time And Money Checklists

Author:Brian Tracy

“I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.”

Way Want Giving Writing Humans I Can Enough Stories My Own Secret Moral Air Cost Curiosity Love Story Data Infrastructure Scratches Thin Air

Author:James Ellroy

“It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.”

Writing Mean Whole Problem Film Novel Cost Paper Productions Staples

Author:Ruth Ozeki

“Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.”

Knows Way Writing Use Too Much Style Design Reader Cost Standards Backgrounds Clarity Fancy Orthodox Suitable Verbs Shortcuts Spelling Nouns Dialect Breezy Offbeat

Author:E. B. White

“I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.”

Knows Writing Night Brain Know How Cost Rain Crosses Calm Budgets Noon Stormy Stormy Nights

Author:Albert Brooks

“When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.”

“Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)”

Way Want Writing I Can Book Whole Stars Reader Cost Lows Expectations Paid Posts Justify Editors Reviews New Ways Blogs

Author:Kate Christensen

“Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.”

People Writing Song Fashion Cost

Author:Scott McClanahan

“A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.”

Writing Wish Brain Cost Sweat

Author:Owen Feltham

“The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.”

Writing Book Ideas Wanted Black Influence College Cost Paper Percent Program Paid Employee Mills Part Time Tuition Black Humor

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.”

Writing Book Order Chance Numbers Quality Four Color Huge Higher Cost Paper Ocean Function Sells Expensive Customs Telephones Printing Packing Inventory Shipping Huge Numbers Clearance

Author:Dan Poynter

“If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Art Stories Hands School Class Teacher Pieces Cost Paper High School Pencils Typewriters Manuals

Author:Tama Janowitz

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

Thinking Writing Powerful Education Cost Conscious Inspiring Writing

Book:Locked rooms and open doors

Source: Locked rooms and open doors

“If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.”

Ifs Giving Writing I Can Laughing Cry Emotional Reader Scene Cost Give Me Good Day Typewriters Have A Good Day Clout

Author:Alan Moore

“Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.”

Writing Joy Cost Mad Awake Kicks Sheer

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

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