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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
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I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
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I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
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The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself… — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
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I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame. — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
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If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
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...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
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Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural.… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
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