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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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I am a writer of fragments. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. ↗

— Wally Amos

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Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding. But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same. Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

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If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say. ↗

— Justin Sane

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Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth. (“Mad House”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

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Every writer is a writer of the generation before. ↗

— Wilfrid Sheed

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I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. ↗

— John Zorn

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I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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