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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
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Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
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As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self.… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
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Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
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Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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