“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingRealWholeSeemsLike YouPressureTricks Author:David O. Russell
“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.” ThinkingWritingYearsMorningSpecialProducePaintingFoolDecidedExperienceTricksArticlesMasterpieceSolidity Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout