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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters. John Allison

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One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line. Joseph Brodsky

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I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives. Joseph Brodsky

My first job out of law school was on the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where Gorsuch is a judge. I observed in the year that I worked at the court what many litigants and commentators have since noted: that Gorsuch possesses an incisive legal mind, writes with skill and wit, and is scrupulously fair. Josh Hawley

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One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. Joyce Carol Oates

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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. Jules Renard

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When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are. Katherine Ryan

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There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty album. Kurt Vile

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I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway. Lee Hall

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. Len Wein

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We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does. Lin-Manuel Miranda

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I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that. Lindsey Buckingham

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In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own. Liz Tuccillo

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One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about. Luke Evans

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully. Maggie Smith

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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Manuel Puig

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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. Marge Piercy

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There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone. Mark Billingham

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