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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.


Anatole France
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
Mickey Spillane
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
George Steiner
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When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.
Rhianna Pratchett
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As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.


Jesse Ball
You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned.
Tony Ross
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.


Douglas Adams
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A writer without his country is nothing.


Marek Hlasko
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.
Raymond E. Feist
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Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
William L. Jenkins
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My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
James Burrows
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I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.
Erin Morgenstern
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.


Robert Frost
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Richard Russo
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.


Haruki Murakami
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.


Gertrude Stein
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When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.


Willie Morris
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I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
Peter Lerangis
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber
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