"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."

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"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

Marianne Moore, American Poet

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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

William Devane, American Actor

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"I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem."

Mackenzie Crook, English Actor

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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

Matt Groening, American Cartoonist

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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

Walter Jon Williams, American Writer

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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

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"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."

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"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."

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"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."

Man

"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."

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"I always try to find something I admire about every character I play."

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"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."

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"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

"I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem."

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."

"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."

"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."

"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence."

"I don't honestly think people know what acting is."

"I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job."

"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."

"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."

"I always try to find something I admire about every character I play."

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."