“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer.”
The Rod Serling bio page on the Internet Movie DataBase.
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Writers on Writing interview (1986)
“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer.”
The Rod Serling bio page on the Internet Movie DataBase.
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“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.”
On devient bon écrivain comme on devient bon menuisier: en rabotant ses phrases.
As quoted in Anatole France en pantoufles by Jean-Jacques Brousson (1924); published in English as Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary, Jean-Jacques Brousson (1925), trans. John Pollock, p. 85
Variant translation: You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
The Findus Foods "Frozen Peas" Session Out-Takes
Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor, Larry King Live, CNN, 23 January 2001, 2006-09-16 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/23/lkl.00.html,
2006
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 60
“I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.”
“If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.”
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 226
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