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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.


Leon Edel


#fade #his #house #inner #into

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.


Greg Egan


#employers #gap #i #likely #long

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.


Hugo Gernsback


#clouds #description #detective #methods #modern

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.


Mika Waltari


#come #differ #dread #during #gods

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.


Marjane Satrapi


#bore #changes #else #every #every time

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.


Benjamin Walker


#consider #flailing #i #myself #writer

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.


Robert Penn Warren


#been #done #first #i #kind

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.


Jennifer Weiner


#courses #creative #creative writing #english #english major

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.


Tobias Wolff


#anything #become #decided #else #i

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.


Sarah Zettel


#capable #create #did #earth #either






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