#writ

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#high #i #i am #more #mysteries

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conscious #conscious thought #esquire #i #scholar

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words. ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#failing #frederick-weisel #story #teller #weisel

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#enjoy #enjoy reading #form #highest #highest form

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. ↗

— Guy Johnson

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With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest. ↗

— Guy Johnson

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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it. ↗

— Norton Juster

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Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#animator #disney #draw #good #good writer