“Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.”
— Louise Erdrich
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Demanding New Ideas
“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”
— Roald Dahl
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Visionary, See the Writer
“The writer is the visionary of his people… He anticipates, he warns.”
— Wole Soyinka
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Not A Bad Thing
“It’s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – we’re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.”
— Neil Gaiman
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Find the Location
“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”
— Flannery O’Connor
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When It Happens
“The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away, that’s when this stuff comes.”
— David Remnick
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Odd Habits? Nah, Writer
“In the end, I am quite normal. I don’t have odd habits. I don’t dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don’t talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer’s block, all those things that we hear about writers.”
— Jose Saramago
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Paradox of Humanity
“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.”
— Tim O’Brien
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Think & Act . . . Act & Think?
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
— Johann von Goethe
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