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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#being #famous #i #imagined #jane

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. ↗

— Karl Rove

#comfortable #family #i #me #write

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#want #will #write #writer

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#became #because #been #big #big idea

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#actually #adult #ask #bingo #citizen

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#bliss #cafe #idea #just #me