What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there weren’t actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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Jackie Collins
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --
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Anonymous
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
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Nikki Giovanni
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
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Alexei Maxim Russell
...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
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Andrea A. Lunsford
More Quotes By Garth Risk Hallberg
I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she said, but that was part of what had been confusing her, that I would even have told her that, as if she weren't an...
One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?
As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.
But what if time worked the other way around? What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?
And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?
