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I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist
Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. — Lauren Graham
Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, â€˜Well, thatâ€™s Adrian. — Richelle Mead
Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set… — Georgette Heyer
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't… — Stevie Nicks
But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if… — Chris Colfer
The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the… — Seamus Heaney
Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written… — Zora Neale Hurston
Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the… — John Keats
And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when youâ€™re old enough, this story that lives with me,… — Tatiana de Rosnay
Iâ€™m an author. We donâ€™t want to lead. We donâ€™t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and… — Neil Gaiman
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your… — Haruki Murakami
I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds."… — Terry Pratchett
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. — Mark Nepo
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.… — Anne Carson
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A… — Tom Clancy
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Daniel Handler
Doubtful, but it did work... "Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you… — Rick Riordan
...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits,… — Ryukishi07
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. — Astrid Lindgren

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