“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.”
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Uncertain Territory
“The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory – and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place – the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.”
— Nicole Krauss
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Mined My Soul
“It’s not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They’ve made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.”
— Julianna Baggott
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Character Laugh
“Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!”
— Luigi Pirandello
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Beginning-Writer’s Misfortune
“A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.”
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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No Self-Doubt—Best
“As a writer, you have to believe you’re one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.”
— Jo Nesbo
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Reason Your Arsenal
“Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It’s just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.”
— Mark Helprin
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Truth Waiting
“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.”
— Don DeLillo
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Successful Fowl
“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
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Advice to a Writer
“I never know how to give advice to a writer because there’s so much you could say, and it’s hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.”
— Sue Monk Kidd
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