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Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. ↗

— Robert Caro

#book #had #i #learn #learning

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #gets #i #i feel #i feel like

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#biographies #called #find #got #hate

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

#credible #every #fiction #fiction writer #knows

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#disagrees #i #i think #i write #like

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ↗

— John le Carre

#another #back #balance #bank #childhood

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid. ↗

— Neko Case

#am #another #anyone #being #comes

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#i #lot #reading #really #room

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#find #gives #i #just #me