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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#admire #author #note #piece #read

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#asking #asking questions #call #comes #creating

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #instinctive #try #want #writer

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#about #art #assumes #because #better

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#had #high #high school #i #jungle

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#good #good writer #honest #how #i

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#attracted #based #good #good writing #i

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comics #dc #first #horror #house

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#begin #between #came #day #downstairs