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Quote by Robert Rankin

“I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.”

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Robert Rankin

Robert Rankin, born on July 27, 1949, is a renowned British novelist known for his humorous and satirical style, as well as his rich imagination. His works, which span a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, and adventure, have won him a wide audience. more

“Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.”

People Writing Persons Ends Helping Feelings Interest Vision Honesty Endless Intensity Within You Acknowledgment

Author:Santha Rama Rau

“All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.”

Writing Persons Book Matter Curious Idiotic

Author:Jean Rhys

“Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”

Writing Age Pain Mother Lost Darkness Draws Daughter Died Catholic Cards My Daughter

Author:Anne Rice

“Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.”

Writing Dying Frustration Flicker

Author:Mordecai Richler