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“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”

Writing Seems Differences My Own Reader Equal Importance Prose

Author:Kevin Powers

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'”

Writing Persons Self Equal Founders Evident

Author:Edward Snowden

“Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.”

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.”

Writing Has Beens Plans Goes On Equal Assuming Gaga

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.”

Should Writing Able Pay Opinion Class Equal Paper Grades Gum Equal Pay Sixth Grade

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”

Writing Justice Equal All Things Revealing Transparency Glare

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Stories Fiction Streets Battle Equal Accounts Rate Demonstration Factual

Author:John Cheever

“Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'”

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Author:Nora Ephron

“And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which is really nice, kind of off the back of this, so I don't necessarily have to generate my own stuff. I'm just looking for something that's explosively funny and relatable in equal measure.”

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Author:Dan Mazer

“Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing M*A*S*H; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.”

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Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.”

Writing Mind Found Study Four Wall Equal Pages Sitting Clean Awake Enjoyment Theme Desks Four Walls

Book:Irving's Works

Source: Irving's Works

“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”

“We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.”

Writing Long Book Country Enough Law Next Rights Equal Presidential Chapters Equal Rights Next Chapter

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall mutiny or rise up against their commanders and officers; if any should preach or write that there should be no commanders or officers because all are equal in Christ, therefore no master or officers, no laws nor orders, nor corrections nor punishments - I say I never denied that in such cases, the commander may judge, resist, compel, and punish such transgressors according to their deserts and merits.”

“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.”

Writing Book Use Pleasure Lovers Equal Increase Library Possession Riches Consumed Librarian Treasured

Author:John Alfred Langford

“I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue [all men are created equal] has never been properly addressed and it hasn't gone away.”

Men Writing Book Facts Gone Issues One Thing Equal Gone Away

Author:George Saunders

“The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.”

Writing Mean Different Culture Situation Equal Blind Outsiders

Author:Anjan Sundaram

“I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.”

Writing Interesting Drama Equal Teenager

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“If I have a strong dislike for something, obviously that garners an equal amount of derision, towards me from the audience. And that's fine, as long as it's within the bounds of decency and isn't too personal in the vitriol. That's what makes the blog interesting, and that's what makes reading it interesting and that's what makes writing interesting. You don't want everyone to agree.”

Writing Long Reading Strong Interesting Audience Equal Agree Dislike Decency

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Reason Literature Felt Equal Originals Diminish Sequels

Author:Dean Koontz

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.”

Writing Art Sometimes Position Equal Pages Capable Communicate Visuals Aesthetic Incapable Discourse Hierarchy Visual Art

Book:Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.”

People Ifs Knows Men Writing Persons Wanted Black White Equal Racism Hundred Western Wounds Journalism Black People White Man Peppers

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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