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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London
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I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.


Ansel Elgort
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The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.


Gillian Cross
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It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
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If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
Sonia Sotomayor
I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.
Raymond E. Feist
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When I write, I imagine places more than people.


Paula Hawkins
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I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
Terry McMillan
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Tamora Pierce
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I have to live my books before I write them.


Dave Ramsey
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I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.
Lauren Kate
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I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
Kate Atkinson
I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Jean M. Auel
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
Sylvia Earle
I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
Michael Robotham
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Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman
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