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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

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I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. ↗

— John Irving

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When you write a song, a song has longevity. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things. ↗

— Joan Jett

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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs. ↗

— Elliott Smith

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ↗

— Norman Lear

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