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“Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.”

People Giving Different Would Be Literature Interesting Written Childhood Window Motherhood Different Peoples Really Interesting

Author:Natalie Merchant

“All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.”

People Knows Writing Literature Written Happened

Author:Norman MacCaig

“What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.”

People Written Slumps

Author:Frank Langella

“What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.”

People Way Play Written Humility Listening Relate

Author:Trevor Nunn

“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.”

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.”

People Book States Stories Shows Wanted Political Left Views Poverty Written Crime Reader Point Of View Welfare Officials Copies Layers Realised Brutality Sweden Welfare State Criminality

Author:Maj Sjowall

“People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.”

People Mean Shows Certain Written New York Communication Shots Dialogue Accurate Stink

Author:Dick Wolf

“And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.”

People Laughing Written Jokes Dirty Thrill

Author:Laura Wade