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“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.”

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Author:Jonah Lehrer

“Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.”

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Author:Tom Robbins

“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.”

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Author:John Sandford

“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”

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Author:Michael Crichton

“I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.”

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Author:Mona Simpson

“There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.”

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Author:John Green

“MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.”

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Author:Sam Wineburg

“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.”

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Author:Jose Padilha

“I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.”

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Author:Christopher Bollen

“Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.”

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Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.”

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Author:Robert Genn

“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.”

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Author:Michael Koryta

“No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.”

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Book:Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People

Source: Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People

“I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.”

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Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.”

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Author:David Ayer

“Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would admit throwing an f-bomb in there would help get a reaction. ... I'm not on a Puritanical pursuit, but when I would curse in a joke, I believe I'm not done writing it.”

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Author:Jim Gaffigan

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