“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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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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Journalistic Investigations
“Every time I’ve had to do journalistic investigations, I’ve cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It’s the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.”
— Italo Calvino
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Quality of Speaking
“The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.”
— Robertson Davies
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Remember It, Not Forget
“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”
— Thomas Wolfe
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A Writer’s Final Death
“A writer’s definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That’s the final death.”
— Jose Saramago
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Make A Writer…
“Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.”
— Dennis Miller
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Late-Night Absurdity
“You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.”
— Joss Whedon
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