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Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials. Ann Rule

Love Trials Hate Some Writers Go

Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk. Ann Turner

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start. Anne McCaffrey

Good Enough Would Through Writers New Readership Still Encourage Off Get Electronic Electronic Media Media Publishing Wide Start Need

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. Anne Tyler

Good Young Think Earth Must Writers Put New Very May Urged Young Writers Themselves Hard Who Forward Thing Last

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult. Anthony Browne

Difficult Find More Writers Articulate Artists

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often, you write yourself into a dark place where you don't know what you need to know, so you go get the information. Anthony Doerr

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me. Anthony Doerr

Great Me Ranked Writers Least

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers. Anthony Holden

Long Journalist Other Photographers Charles Trip Only Through Writers Prince Prince Charles Couple South South America America Where

During the 20th century, Chechnya was written about by local poets and novelists, as well as writers from Russia and Central Asia, but very little is available in English translation. Anthony Marra

Translation Local About Russia Poets Writers Written Chechnya Well Very Central Available Little Asia Century English Novelists

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart. Anthony McCarten

You Impossible Living Unless Broke Tell Writers Almost Make Oddly Rolling Arts In-Between Either Apart Them Fortune

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured. Anton Yelchin

Me Sometimes Country Back Extremely Complex Tortured See Haunt Russia Russian Writers Feel Like Were Itself Many Why

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. Antonia Fraser

Writing Prison Writers Major Concern Who

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. Antonio Lobo Antunes

Family Me Patriotism World Strong Country Become Living Monument Admire Writers Idea Over Suppose Come Like Sort Chekhov Beethoven Very Artists Roots Painters Portugal

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. Antony Beevor

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Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener. Antony Johnston

Learning Cowardly Loathe Paper Pen Something Superstitious Could Computer Writers Unconventional New Well Equally Accomplish Lot Application Applications Honest

A lot of young writers ask me about my process. They know what they want to write - but they need to know how. What's the right way? How do the professionals do it? What's the secret? Antony Johnston

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