Marie Arana famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.
-- Marie Arana

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Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.
-- Marie Arana

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Life is better when we imagine it
-- Marie Arana

#Life Is #Imagine

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

Marie Arana famous quotes

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