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I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. ↗

— Donald McKay

#full #hobby #i #job #me

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#congressional #need #process #reform #writing process

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing.It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#inspiration #writing #art

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#childhood #different #different people #experiences #gives

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#classic #comedies #culture #entertain #entertainment

It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#creative-writing #imagination

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#better #find #got #increasing #just

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#again #am #could #hits #i

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #art