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Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.
Chris Cleave

Fun, Same, Looking

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
John Mortimer

Life, Between, Modern

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
Jane Haddam

Advice, Listen, Half

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson

Character, Single, Book

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.
Cheryl Strayed

Human, Learned, Both

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
Judy Davis

Truth, Mind, Trying

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Time, Important, Nothing

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Nice, Writing, Put

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Write, Fast, Pays

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
Lee Grant

Everything, Down, Big

They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
Kelly Macdonald

Life, Said, Around

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.
William Bell

Design, Everything, Different

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
Gene Wolfe

Life, Experience, True

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
David Benioff

Goal, Again, Frustrated

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
Eric Brown

Writing, Short, Write

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
Eric Brown

Hard, Thought, Find

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.
Eric Brown

Waiting, Made, Big

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
Daniel Pinkwater

Trying, Find, Wanted

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
Christopher Durang

Theatre, Wanting

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.
William Landay

Become, Actually, Decided

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
William Landay

Long, Trying, Though

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
Hudson Stuck

Rose, Breath, Shortness

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
Ann Brashares

Life, Live, Book

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
Majel Barrett

Travel, Same, Put

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
Toni Cade Bambara

Job, Revolution

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.
Colson Whitehead

Movies, Become, Write

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
Colson Whitehead

Science, Movies, Become

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.
Colson Whitehead

Writing, Coffee, Step

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.
Colson Whitehead

Work, Home, Live

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
Dorothea Benton Frank

Crazy, Brain, Why

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