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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income. ↗

— George Stephen

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I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. ↗

— R. L. Stine

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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books. ↗

— R. L. Stine

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We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun. ↗

— Matt Stone

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But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills. ↗

— John Stossel

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I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. ↗

— George Strait

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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