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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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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

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I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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I'm very involved in the writing on every level. ↗

— Fran Drescher

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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that. ↗

— Fran Drescher

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