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“I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.”

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An American best-selling author known for her romance novels. Since publishing her first novel in 1981, Nora Roberts has written over 200 books, which have been beloved by readers worldwide. more

“I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love . . . but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them.”

World Writing Wells Kind Doe Stills States Character Form Levels Novel Traditional Realising Permit Fashionable Anachronism

Author:Paule Marshall

“James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.”

Writing Joyce

Author:Samuel Beckett

“I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.”

Writing Views

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.”

Writing Wells Use Direct Notes Ruins Analysis Rely Silk Silk Road

Author:Ted Rall

“Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.”

Writing Type Just One Wicked Pushing One Direction

Author:Squarepusher

“My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.”

Writing

Author:Squarepusher

“Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.”

Science Death Three Strong Weak Agree Lawyer Priests Fees

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'”

“For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.”

Want Care Science Death Millions Died Wounds Timely

Author:John Armstrong

“I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.”

Ifs Heart Said Science Death Presses Thrown Artificial

Author:William DeVries

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