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I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. Michael Palin

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I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing. Mohsin Hamid

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. Norman Mailer

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I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing. Paulo Coelho

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Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp turn, and you don't know what's around the corner. It could be a waterfall, it could be a big pool. The narrative current carries you. You're surprised, and you're thrilled, and sometimes you're terrified. Peter Heller

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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. Ray Bradbury

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. Rebecca West

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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over. Richard Attenborough

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The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is. Sam Shepard

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was falling apart. Sandra Brown

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If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. Shereen El Feki

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To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing. Sophie Kinsella

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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. Stephen King

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear. Steven Wright

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