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The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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