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Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Penny, why don't you write a play about Ism-Mania? Penny Sycamore: Ism-Mania? Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Yeah, sure, you know, Communism, Faschism, Voodoo-ism, everybody's got an -ism these days. Penny Sycamore: Oh [laughs] Penny Sycamore: I thought it was some kind of itch or something. Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Well, it's just as catching. When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out, get yourself an -ism and you're in business. George S. Kaufman
James A. Michener quote: "If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing..."
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. James A. Michener
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the..."
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. Kurt Vonnegut
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Anthony Burgess
Stanislaw Lec quote: "Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing...."
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. Stanislaw Lec
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. W. H. Auden
William S. Burroughs quote: "The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals."
The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. William S. Burroughs
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended toproduce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulaeto make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, anymore than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to makethings happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae. William S. Burroughs
Shirley Hazzard quote: "It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state..."
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of. Shirley Hazzard
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't..."
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. Kurt Vonnegut
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles? I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that? I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life? This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours Jack Kerouac
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. Stephen King
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. Charles Bukowski
February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself. Albert Camus
When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. Joss Whedon

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