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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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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."
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"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
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"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."
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"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."
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"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."
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"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
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"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
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"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
Actor
"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
Change
"I never go overbudget on my movies."
Movies
"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
Love
"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
"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
People
"I would rather just do the things I want to do."
Want
"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
"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
"My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make."
Movies
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