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 I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Peter De Vries |
[Introducing the best adapted screenplay]
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
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Steve Martin (at the 2003 Oscars®) |
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
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Mel Brooks (on writing his Memoirs) |
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
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Samuel Johnson |
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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Tom Clancy |
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
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Robert Benchley |
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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Robert Benchley (Robert Benchley by Nathaniel Benchley, 1955) |
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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Marshall McLuhan |
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
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William Faulkner |
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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William Faulkner |
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