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Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.


Joe Klein


#colors #confused #fair #journalism #journalists

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.


Gustav Klimt


#faced #i #letter #looming #scared

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.


Nigel Kneale


#does #exciting #going #inside #me

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.


Bobby Knight


#grade #greater #learn #most #second

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of what others might say or think about it


Andrew James Pritchard


#diversity #living-life-to-the-fullest #travel #writing #experience

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.


Karl Kraus


#essays #fritter #his #should #someone

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.


Melissa Rosenberg


#brad #brad pitt #engaging #film #film industry

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.


Joan D. Vinge


#i #i do #political #tracts #want

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.


Melissa Rosenberg


#because #deal #deliver #done #everything

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.


Melissa Rosenberg


#because #down #fast #five #had






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