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• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  Edna O'Brien

  Soul, Mind, Hotel

  Vogue Interview, April 1985.

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• Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Dream, Writing, Fidgeting

  FaceBook post by Jerry B. Jenkins from Feb 20, 2015

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• The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

  Forest Whitaker

  Daughter, Dad, Stupid

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• There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Writing, Two, Giving

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• I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss even one bedtime with my girls. . . My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult--especially that question of how you find a balance.

  Jennifer Garner

  Girl, Mother, Hate

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• I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Kids, Forever, Stuff

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

  Don DeLillo

  Jail, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

  Anita Diament

  Giving Up, Reading, Writing

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• Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Ego, Promise

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• Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Talking, Giving, Jazz

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Literature

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• I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Thinking, Frightened

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• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  Walter Mosley

  Black, World, Mediocre

  "In his latest mystery, Walter Mosley takes Easy to new turf, to '60s San Francisco. Far out, man." by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2005.

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• Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.

  Florence S. Jacobsen

  Dream, Prayer, Moving

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• And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

  Brian Lumley

  Lifetime, Certain, Findings

  "Necroscope: Looking Back". www.brianlumley.com.

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• Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

  Terry McMillan

  Writing, Willing

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• Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Publicity, Promotion, True Things

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• You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Future, Past, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

  Johnny Christ

  Past, Men, Scary

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• I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Python, Special

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• Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Escaping, Fortunate, Principal

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• The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Feminist, Suits, Standards

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• The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

  Joan Didion

  Children, Order, Definitions

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 28, 2011

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• Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

  Beverly Cleary

  Here And There, Needs

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• But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Long, Independence, Religion

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz (Illustrated)”, p.6150, Delphi Classics

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