#i write

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes. ↗

— Len Wein

#begin #between #changes #difference #draft

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#also #america #books #children #entertaining

I write books to find out about things. ↗

— Rebecca West

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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#first #get #i #i write #myself

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#goes #gospel #i #i write #inform

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#change #i #i write #idiot #just

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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I write a thousand words a day. ↗

— Lisa See

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Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#because #close #dropping #embarrasses #everything