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• The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Believe, Years

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Writing, Years

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press

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• Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

  Michelle Malkin

  Character, White, House

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• Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

  Roger McGuinn

  Song, Sometimes

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• I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

  Samantha Morton

  Tragic, Wells, Materials

  "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Names, Fiction

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  Randy Newman

  Song, If I Could, Ifs

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• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  Tea Obreht

  Animal, Trying, Process

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• Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.

  R. L. Stine

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Doubt, Spirit

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Brother, Government

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• Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

  Dennis Lehane

  Book, Good Day, Bad Day

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• The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

  James Lafferty

  Stories, Half, Written Word

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• What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

  Trevor Nunn

  Humility, Play, People

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• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Novel, Convince

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• Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Russell Pearce

  Silly, Agreement, Promise

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• There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Way, Streaming

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• The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

  Amy Ryan

  Thinking, Wire, Fans

  "Amy Ryan" with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2008.

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• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  Ian Rankin

  Dad, Reading, Home

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

  David Rubenstein

  College, Letters, Students

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• Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Thinking, Scene, Wells

  "Elizabeth Reaser is Still Learning". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 07, 2012.

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• But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

  Ali Smith

  Style, Ingredients, Lists

  Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

  Anton Seidl

  Real, Book, Might

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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