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• Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn’t really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

  Patrick Marber

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• The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

  Paul de Man

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• The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

  Paul de Man

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• Writing and Painting are the same for me.

  Peter Malkin

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• I’m not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don’t. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I’m concerned with.

  P. J. Harvey

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• I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

  Phil Hartman

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• I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

  Paul Dirac

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• I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

  Paul Haggis

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• You never write down to the people – you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

  William Kraft

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• I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don’t have a little list of topics to write about.

  Tracy Chapman

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• Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

  Peter Bichsel

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• Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

  Peter Bichsel

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• That is a secondary teacher conception – the writer as an observer.

  Peter Bichsel

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• I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

  Peter Bichsel

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• I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

  Patrick Dennis

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• I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

  Patrick White

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• I think TV is much more the writer’s medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

  Patrick Dempsey

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• I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn’t.

  Thomas Gold

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• The classical writers… playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

  Timothy West

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• I’ve been writing a lot, I’ve a few projects I’m trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing… Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I’d be thrilled.

  Paul M. Glaser

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