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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] ↗


— Cormac McCarthy


#fiction #goals #guidance #novels #perfection

That wasn't love; that was stupidity. ↗


— Sherrilyn Kenyon


#fact #fictional #life #truth #life

A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand, bone-chilling commission should write book reviews, editorials, or health-insurance policies instead. ↗


— Pat Conroy


#life

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. ↗


— Vera Nazarian


#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern

And the mountains, the flowers, the sky. Earth. Beyond that door was Earth. And life. ↗


— Beth Ravis


#young-adult #life

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that. ↗


— Christopher Morley


#kitty-foyle #pretending #life

When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must be done so I can exist.” The Man With the Green Suitcase ↗


— Dee Doanes


#life

It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether. This world was dead. ↗


— Angelo Tsanatelis


#fantasy-fiction #median-kingdom #life

Life is volatile. ↗


— Robert J. Pajer


#mystery #thriller #life

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. ↗


— Ursula Hegi


#life-in-small-german-town #rise-of-nazis #life






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