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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.


Randy Wayne White
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I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
Paul Theroux
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What good is sitting all alone in your room?


Liza Minnelli
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.


Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.
Paul O'Grady
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This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
Laurie Halse Anderson
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I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.
Jason Schwartzman
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I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.
George Hickenlooper
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Henry James
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As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.
Guy Davenport
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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
Lars Mikkelsen
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
Sabrina Bryan
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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.


Ruth Ozeki
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When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a good time, and it was a great group of people, but like any project that I've worked on in my career, you just put your best foot forward, and you're all working together to make the best movie possible.
Thomas Ian Nicholas
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Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.
Phil Foglio
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There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos
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When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.
Laurie Metcalf
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I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.
Stevie Nicks
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
Rainn Wilson
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
John Patrick Shanley
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