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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. ↗

— Bryan Magee

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Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#always #aspects #be different #because #being

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#everything #eye #highly #looking #spectator

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

#actually #after #although #bill #bill clinton

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#brilliant #five #got #i #just

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#book #fortunes #fun #great #life

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself. ↗

— Mary Matalin

#books #comes #complete #herself #i

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

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