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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#driving #far #fog #headlights #like

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. ↗

— Rita Dove

#anything #because #dealing #else #going

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #bible #intense #keep #point

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#anything #books #boundaries #free #i

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#because #even #feel #fiction #functioning

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#big #big mistake #book #conceived #could

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. ↗

— Paul Valery

#mistaken #never #only #poe #writer

You've got to live life to write a book about it. ↗

— Andy Williams

#book #got #life #live #live life

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#public #self #than #write #yourself