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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles. ↗

— Lamont Dozier

#definitely #research #should #sounds #styles

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#book #creative #day #during #feel

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#cannot #face #him #his #never

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. ↗

— Jay Dratler

#goose #i #i write #pen #quill

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#any #except #funny #i #neither

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#comedy #ended #existence #exorcist #me

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#completed #down #every #harper #i

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#because #directors #lot #people #stress

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#future #i #i can #i write #like

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#every #film #film school #goes #how