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I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#else #entertain #i #influenced #interests

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#actually #anything #book #dreaming #fun

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.


Michael Haneke


#art #bad #began #careful #experience

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.


Charlaine Harris


#book #going #happen #i #just

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.


Paul Harris


#american writers #brilliant #british #charge #critics

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.


Harry Harrison


#bad #comic #good #most #very

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.


Jim Harrison


#also #aspiring #garlic #give #helps

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.


Jim Harrison


#concepts #how #most #publishing #totally

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.


P. J. Harvey


#film-makers #i #i am #influenced #more

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.


Teresa Nielsen Hayden


#experiences #many #own #promotion #publicity






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