#writer

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. ↗

— Tom Allen

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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#away #being #comes #cut #experience

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#directors #films #percentage #play #poor

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#english #english major #major #marry #number

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#writing #death

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#american writer #hopelessly #rarely #sane #see

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. ↗

— Athanasius

#approach #cleanse #copying #deeds #first

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#brigade #citizens #city #comedians #entering

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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