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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. ↗

— John le Carre

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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. ↗

— Laura Lippman

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So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect. ↗

— Jules Massenet

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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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