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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. ↗

— George Murray

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I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#around #best #environment #get #goodness

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

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I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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