"I get a great high from writing."

Writing,

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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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Creativity, Identity, Profession

"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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, History, Research, Fiction, Truth

"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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Creativity, Adaptation, Flexibility, Plot

"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Writing, Play

"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, World, Reality, Imagination, Importance

"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Writing, Words

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Literature, Scotland, Culture

"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all."

Nigel Dennis, British Writer

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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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"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."

Change

"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

Criticism

"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."

Movies

"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."

Experience

"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."

Movies

"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."

Time

"Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."

"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."

"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all."

"If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article."

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"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."

"I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan."

"I've always wanted to do a boxing movie."

"I always say the next one is my favorite."

"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."

"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."

"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."

"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."

"Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it."