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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. ↗

— Louise Brown

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Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. ↗

— Louise Brown

#commission #doing #other #plenty #publishers

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#come #general #give #happen #i

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #experience

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#alone #chair #come #director #hard

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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