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I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,… — Corey Taylor
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to… — Corey Taylor
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry. — James J. Kilpatrick
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. — W. P. Kinsella
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any… — Philip J. Klass
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you… — Lurlene McDaniel
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I… — John D. MacDonald
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that… — Robin McKinley
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what… — Robin McKinley
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. — Katherine Mansfield
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which… — Alberto Moravia
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that… — Lord Chesterfield
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible… — Gardner Dozois
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write… — Harlan Ellison
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers. — Aldous Huxley
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the… — Aldous Huxley

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