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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.


Paul Auster
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.


Gertrude Stein
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The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
Jaime Ray Newman
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If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
Clifford Geertz
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.
Cassie Steele
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I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.


Savion Glover
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John le Carre
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.


William Wordsworth
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I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.
Marie Trintignant
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I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you're a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.
Darren Shan
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When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.


Maulik Pancholy
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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
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I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.
Corey Taylor
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Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.
Mal Peet
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.


Peter Bichsel
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There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
Charles Stanley
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
Edmund White
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
Les Baxter
A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
Keith Miller
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