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Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year. — David Baldacci
The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot… — David Baldacci
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. — Jeffery Deaver
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what… — Jeffery Deaver
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I… — Lee Child
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. — Danielle Steel
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I donâ€™t want… — David Ogilvy
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been… — David Ogilvy
There's no posterity to write for.Â I'm writing now for mutated arthropods. — Peter Reading
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just… — Carol Ann Duffy
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. — Andrew Motion
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. — Andrew Motion
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything… — Paul Muldoon
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I… — Sharon Olds
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x,… — Sharon Olds
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can… — Laurell K. Hamilton

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