William Campbell Gault famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages.
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If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.
-- William Campbell Gault
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
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