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"But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half."
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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."
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"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
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"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."
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"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
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"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."
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"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
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"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
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"If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article."
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"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."
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"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
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"But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half."
Writing
"Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it."
People
"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
Love
"I make time to write."
Time
"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
Actor
"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."
Extreme
"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."
Movies
"I never go overbudget on my movies."
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"I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time."
Time
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
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