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“Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I've loved for such a long time!" It's amazing!”

Writing Long Shows Actors Names Stars My Own Long Time Wake Up

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.”

People Should Writing Long Book Enough Seems Half Novel Pages Impression Good Enough Editing Not Good Enough

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.”

Writing Long Book Helping Spiritual Morning Crazy Perspective Long Time Filled Obstacles Help Me Working It Spiritual Life Every Morning Journal Stressed

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.”

Ifs Men Writing Wells Long Suffering Answers Drunk Liver

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”

Writing Trying Long Action Lasts Given Memories Practice Ears Casts Pens Polish Paragraph Deposits Mould

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.”

Knows Writing Mind Wells Long Play Sound Audience Stage Perception Ears Devotion Playwriting

Author:Tennessee Williams

“But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.”

Writing Years Long Done Too Much

Author:Samuel Daniel

“I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the world in which we live or, better yet, if I could help to preserve the economic and political system that has allowed me to flourish as a participant.”

Ifs World Writing Long Book Helping Lasts Political Values Wish Understanding Economic Civilization Preserves If I Could Business Success Participants Political Systems

Author:George Soros

“I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.”

Want Writing Long Able Guy Next One Thing Projects Long Time Scripts These Days Impatient Felicity Aliases

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Shows Beautiful Song Records Cutting Heard Fit Radio Ran Entertainers Best Year

Author:Billy Joel

“You become a serious novelist by living long enough.”

Writing Long Enough Serious Novelists Living Long

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.”

Writing Long Fun

Author:Tom Clancy