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I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter… — Brad Thor
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance… — William T. Vollmann
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends… — William T. Vollmann
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write… — Dorian Missick
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano
When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that… — Unknown Author
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4. — Ruth Ozeki
Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so… — Alison Weir
My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love. — Unknown Author
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play… — Lajos Egri
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters. — John Patrick Shanley
My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went… — David Henry Hwang
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born… — Cynthia Ozick
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. — John Searles
I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure. — Franz Wright
Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I had novels to write, so I wrote them. — Octavia Butler
When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute… — Eric Fellner
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research… — Octavia Butler
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. — Octavia Butler
I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have. — Caroline Leavitt
I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check. — Foster Friess
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. — Israel Horovitz
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. — Bill Dedman
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — Lois Lowry

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