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“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Eye Able Hate Waiting Sticks Convinced Pencils

Author:Ron Rash

“People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.”

People Writing Trying Hate White Racism Letters Dare

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.”

People Writing Book Hate Surprise Things To Do Mail Surprise Me Better Things To Do Hate Mail

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.”

People Thinking Writing Bigs Hate Girl Gossip Gongs Gossip Girl

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.”

Writing Book Play Hate Easier Criticize

Book:Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

“The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.”

People Want Feels Writing Kind Night Hate Party Novel Five Four I Hate Going Out Fabulous Funny Things Hate People Schizophrenic I Hate People

Author:Bob Colacello

“I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.”

Writing Hate Policy Pages I Hate Bizarre Protective Exclusion

Book:The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House

“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.”

People Way Want Writing Wells Artist Hate Sound Universal I Hate Impact Critics Strive Triggers Dictionary Deep Meaning

Author:Damien Hirst

“A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

Writing Hate Deals Easier Acknowledge Dislike Flawed

Book:The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

Source: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

“I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.”

People Writing Hate Position Cold Flats Indifferent

Author:Saul Bellow

“Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.”

Writing Doe Hate Good Writing Good Writers Bad Writing

Author:Dan Harmon

“I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.”

World Should Writing Mean War Hard Hate Prayer Common Generations Involved Projects Remains Competition Males War Of The Worlds Paradigm Gore Second World War Self Hate

Author:Erica Jong

“I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.”

Feels Writing Years Country States America Used Hate Courses Felt United United States Gone Happened I Hate Angry Used To Be Writing Life Charmed

Author:Norman Mailer

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