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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
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The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
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The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
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The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
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