“The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.”
— Thomas Mann
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Like Being Alone
“And I find – I’m 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn’t diminished any. That’s the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.”
— John Irving
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Writer Spies
“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
— Graham Greene
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No Secret to Success
“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call ‘the breaks.’ In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things – read and write – and wait.”
— Countee Cullen
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Write What You Want
Learn How to Rewrite
“I didn’t become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don’t just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.”
— Louis Sachar
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Best Author Will Be…
“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Method of Exhaustion
“I’m a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.”
— Sherman Alexie
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A Good Writer
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Library Made Me Write
“I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.”
— Sandra Cisneros
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