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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to…
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A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while,…
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in…
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be…
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child…
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and…
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around…
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Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the…
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Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around…
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Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.
— Raymond E. Feist
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Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is…
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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.
— Roger Angell
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
— Christopher Darden
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Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to…
— Lois Lowry
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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
— Alice Munro
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is…
— Doris Lessing
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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
— David Ogden Stiers
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find…
— Adam Johnson
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