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If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences. ↗

— Ariel Winter

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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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