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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
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If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is. Michael Hancock
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I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
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Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
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I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Michel Faber
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I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
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We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other. Mike Johnson
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I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it. Shizuka Arakawa
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I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it. Irina Slutskaya
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When you see the word devil, you think evil.
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Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.
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On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me. Philippe Petit
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He was such a professional. ... He was always word perfect. Ron Moody
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He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words. Bruce Bennett
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He did not say many words. He was very happy.
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There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
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Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in. Chevy Stevens
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
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I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable. Alan Moore
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Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
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Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. Gail Carson Levine
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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Alice Walker
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In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. William Gibson
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I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely. James Frey
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He said he was 35 when he wrote that.
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I wrote my first short story in third grade. Jennifer McMahon
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I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment. Randy Alcorn
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I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad. Carlos Fuentes
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I wrote it just to get my father's attention, John Prine