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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
Judith Tarr
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
Walter Dean Myers
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.


Leslie Fiedler
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Tweeting is a great way to practice writing jokes, but there is so much more to comedy writing than just jokes. Jokes are a necessity, but you also have to learn how to write characters, to break a story, to keep coherence between episodes. I've learned more by being a TV writer than I ever could've on my own.
Megan Amram
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Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.
Christopher Paolini
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Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
Susan Hill
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it.
Julie Roberts
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I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.
Paullina Simons
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You become a great writer by writing.


Peter Thiel
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I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
Satyajit Ray
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The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.
Christopher Paolini
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Gao Xingjian
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.


Walter Kirn
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I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.


Alistair Maclean
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.
Isabel Allende
I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.
Ruth Rendell
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Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.


Conrad Hall
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I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
Sadie Jones
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If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
William J. H. Boetcker
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