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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

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You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. ↗

— Richard Russo

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I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. ↗

— Goh Chok Tong

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Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. ↗

— William Safire

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Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. ↗

— William Safire

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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both. ↗

— Katey Sagal

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There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture. ↗

— Katey Sagal

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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#great #kind #many #own #really

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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