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Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

— Pat Barker

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

— Hilary Mantel

It's funny, the moments that shape you as a writer.

— Becky Albertalli

There's no better feeling as a writer than to see your piece going beyond what you can have ever imagined. And a wonderful way…

— Tom Kitt

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add…

— Rosellen Brown

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

— Martin Cruz Smith

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow