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Lena Dunham: Let characters feel pleasure and love
Lena Dunham on what she learned from Judd Apatow.
Nov 4
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Roger Ebert: Let them identify with you
"Movies are like a machine that generates empathy."
Oct 30
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Henry Miller: Get beyond pity
"You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual."
Oct 28
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Forget about likability
"If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly."
Sep 16
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George Orwell: Reveal something disgraceful
Orwell's secret to autobiography.
Sep 9
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Craig Mod: Make known the unknown
"A book is always greatest before it’s written."
Aug 17
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Stories over explanations
"We hate having stuff explained to us."
Aug 12
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Jennifer Egan: Prime the pump
Be willing to write badly.
Aug 10
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Robert Plunket: Write to one person
"Everything I write is a letter to Liz."
Aug 5
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Sarah Ruhl: Make what changes you
"The measure of the art is how much it changes the artist."
Jul 27
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Elmore Leonard: If it sounds like writing, rewrite it
"If proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go."
Jul 20
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Claire-Louise Bennett: Do more of what's weird about you
"You have to do it more, because if you do it more then it becomes something."
Jun 24
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