Writer
While Eleanor Coppola may not consider herself a writer, she has nonetheless been able to write two successful books. Her first book, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now, recorded the film’s journey from 1976 to 1979. Her detailed note-taking continued in other areas of her life as she collected and wrote about her life’s major events. With notes consisting of thirty year time span, Eleanor Coppola would go on to write the book Notes on a Life.
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Famous quotes containing the word writer:
“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, ‘till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an Author.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)