#writing

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life. ↗

— Esther Forbes

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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#best #best way #forget #good #good writing

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#always #been #burton #century #francis

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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Novel writing wrecks homes. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#novel #wrecks #writing

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#available #bad #certainly #field #future

I never listen to music when I'm writing. ↗

— Ben Fountain

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