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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#decide #i #next #reading #usually

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#back #come #done #ever #extraordinary

My idea of heaven is not writing. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#idea #writing

Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable ↗

— Craig Stone

#fear #life #writing #dreams

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid? ↗

— Eudora Welty

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Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match? ↗

— C.J. Cherryh

#science-fiction #tennis #writing #science

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#nerves #pretty #writing