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My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… — John Barth
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style… — Susan Sontag
I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it… — Robert Pattinson
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the scene could easily… — Corey Taylor
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which… — Leo Tolstoy
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken… — Thomas Jefferson
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all… — Larry Niven
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply… — George R. R. Martin
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking… — George Orwell
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of… — David Foster Wallace
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a… — David Foster Wallace
My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them… — Ray Bradbury
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be… — Stanley Ellin
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. — Toni Morrison
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage… — Elwyn Brooks White
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. — John Dos Passos

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