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Writing is indeed essential to me. I have been writing for a long time but not for publication. I'm sure there are… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
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I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
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I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel,… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
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I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
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I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure,… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
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Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
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“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
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