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When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. ↗

— Sam Shepard

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I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years. ↗

— Carly Simon

#artistry #been #different #few #gone

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. ↗

— Joe Simon

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Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

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Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. ↗

— Richard Ford

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. ↗

— Socrates

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