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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#face #fiction #fiction writer #grew #had

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. ↗

— Emily Carr

#be careful #careful #know #own #paint

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. ↗

— John le Carre

#certainly #good #got #haven #i

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life. ↗

— Tom Felton

#directing #film #film industry #i #industry

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#comedian #find #funny #happen #i

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#familiar #safe #something #stereotyped #very

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny? ↗

— Ferdowsi

#escape #flee #his #how #man

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good. ↗

— Will Champion

#being #good #hit #level #something

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#asked #degree #drafts #except #i