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“There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.”

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Author:Matt Lauria

“There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It’s a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

Source: A Gift of Wings

“The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.”

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Author:Marin Ireland

“I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.”

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Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.”

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Author:Matthew Specktor

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of the fantastic actors and director with great writing.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“I try to leave out the parts readers skip.”

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Author:Elmore Leonard

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.”

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Author:Reba McEntire

“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.”

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Author:V. S. Naipaul

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

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Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”

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Author:Peter De Vries

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”

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Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

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Author:Jack Kerouac

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”

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Book:Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”

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Author:Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”

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Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.”

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Book:The Western Lands

Source: The Western Lands

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on”

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Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

Source: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories