"If my mother hadn't been trying to..." - Quote by John Updike
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
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“Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.”
“Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.”
“Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.”
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“We read often with as much talent as we write.”
“My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.”
“Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”