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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#detached #disturbing #got #head #i

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#check #checks #come #eight #get

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#best #best way #forget #good #good writing

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#always #been #burton #century #francis

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#exhausting #far #i #know #most

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I really write for people. ↗

— John Eaton

#people #really #write

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#books #brought #closer #discuss #family

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. ↗

— Hanns Eisler

#composer #continuation #human #human beings #knows