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“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.”

People Writing Reality Form Culture Left Wonder Comedy Tvs Standards Romantic Harder Entertainment Genre Classic Legitimacy Reality Tv

Author:Nancy Meyers

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Running Romance Left Sound Rooms Typewriters

Author:Gene Fowler

“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.”

Writing Years Dream Remember Next Father Left Five Mines Months Scene Pages Eight Twins Fragments

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.”

Writing Made Stills Book Ideas Kids Names Left Impression Artistic New Ideas Puberty Books For Kids

Author:Gary Paulsen

“I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.”

Writing Book Left

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.”

Ifs Way Writing Children Ideas Father Left Sex Objects Father Child

Author:Ray Bradbury

“People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.”

People Men Giving Writing I Can Left Break Dad Give Me My Dad

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.”

Writing Left Balls Tennis Serving Throwing Shaving Left Handed

Author:Mike Weir

“The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to the right or left might place him within the grasp of the priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.”

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?”

“One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.”

Way Writing Left Principles Mirrors Coming Back Replica

Author:Thomas Frank

“I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.”

Writing Hands Left Eating Including Knives Left Hand

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.”

Feels Writing I Can Jobs Fall Left Lucky Squeezing

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.”

Giving Writing Children Whole Motivational Together Mother Left Cutting Poet Birth Bigger Meaningful Arise Islands Dancer Meaningless Isolated Not Alone Left Alone

Author:Rajneesh

“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles”

Way Writing Wells Persons Facts Stories Together Left Roles Gone Paper Clever Tales Narrative Preserves Tall Legends Selected Edited Tall Tales

Author:Steven Hall

“Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.”

Writing Mind Wells Left Projects Finals

Book:Fangirl

Source: Fangirl

“A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.”

Writing Left Style Poet Touched Historian Naturalist

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.”

Writing Persons Left Direct Aspiration Holocaust Sooner Or Later Upbringing

Author:Elliot Perlman

“I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'”

Thinking Writing Hard Use Song Left Studios Nine

Author:Jessie J

“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”

Ifs Writing Years Two Able Left Rooms Novel Library Corners Two Years Reporters Mixing Around The Corner Public Library You Left Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.”

Writing Left Effort Pages Certainty Disturbance Unsaid

Book:The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

“My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business, it soon deserted me, for I was busy writing poetry, and could not attend to law, and my clients, though they had great respect for my talents, had no faith in a poetical attorney.”

Writing Law Father Left Talent Blessing Died Busy Pockets Clients No Money Attorney Deserted Writing Poetry Great Respect Father Died My Father Died

Book:The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs of Washington Irving: Tales of The Alhambra, Abbotsford and Newstead Abby, A Tour on the Prairies & Tales of a Traveler: Autobiographical Writings, Travel Reports, Essays and Notes of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Old Christmas

Source: The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs of Washington Irving: Tales of The Alhambra, Abbotsford and Newstead Abby, A Tour on the Prairies & Tales of a Traveler: Autobiographical Writings, Travel Reports, Essays and Notes of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Old Christmas

“The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.”

Ifs Writing Mind Left Unconscious Left Alone Unconscious Mind

Book:Duma Key: A Novel

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Persons Joy Desire Left One Thing Convince Not Alone Left Alone Devastation Fear Of Being Alone

Author:Shonda Rhimes

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.”

Writing Dream Left Behinds Fiction Decades Left Behind

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.”

Men Writing Stills Whole Left Half Morning Four Wife Land Fields Promise Whole Life Clock Dozen Pigs New Day Wisest Fertility Pastures Wisest Man Pallets

Author:Jose Saramago

“Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.”

Writing Hands Left Germany Left Hand Oddities

Author:Kurt Tucholsky

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.”

Writing May Use Hands Left Knowing Accounts Inferiors Left Hand Knowing Myself

Author:John Milton

“Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Left Responsibility Audience Dangerous Response Profession

Book:Conversations with Erica Jong

Source: Conversations with Erica Jong

“I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.”

Thinking Writing Mind Hands Able Left Dues Complaining Engaged Of My Mind Personal Relationships Left Hand

Author:Rebecca West

“The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.”

Writing Reality Left Language Grows Impossible Bones Sentences Mistrust Skeletons Hardness One Sentence

Book:No time like the present

Source: No time like the present

“It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.”

Writing Important Left Creating Nostalgia

Author:Joss Whedon

“I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!”

Writing Song Left Crazy Seven Albums Eight Flight Planes Notebook Brazil Blackberries

Author:Estelle

“People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.”

People Writing Left Thanks Repose

Book:The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861

Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861

“I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.”

Knows Writing Stills Wanted School Left Causes Nouns

Author:Nick Frost

“There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.”

Writing Wells Mean Past Left Sides Realizing Flow Bleak Output

Author:Gore Vidal

“History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.”

Should Writing Left Historian

Author:Ferdinand Marcos

“I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.”

Giving Writing Stills Left Computer Balls

Author:Chris Martin

“I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.”

“When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.”

Thinking Writing Made Reason Kids Left Ready Husband Meals My Time Buying My Husband Grocers

Author:Sadie Jones

“There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.”

Writing Left Good And Bad Left And Right Bad Writing

Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

“It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.”

People Thinking World Giving Should Writing Mind Ends Facts Problem Might Left Ability Opinion Events Cry Solutions Paid Solve Bunch Print Comment Blast Clutter Tick

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”

Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays

“Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.”

Thinking Writing Long Important Left Middle Criticism Legs

Book:Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

Source: Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

“If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stills Beautiful Left One Thing Really Beautiful

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same things over and over For love to continue and be gradually different.”

Way Love Writing Different Left Flower Madness Old Things Same Old Thing

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.”

People Writing Firsts Play Stories Left My Own Tvs Decided Blue Tonight Short Story Peter Crew Senior Cameraman Film Crew

Author:Michael Bond