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“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!”

Writing Trying Persons Ends Whole Moments Feelings Action Memories Reader Despair Chaos Wide Rage Unhappy Reactions Vain Association Gestures Jungle Always Trying Action And Reaction

Book:Blue Voyage: A Novel

Source: Blue Voyage: A Novel

“Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.”

Knows Writing Made Soul Ends Suffering Teach Creatures Depth Clay Potters

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.”

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Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.”

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Book:Scientific Advertising

Source: Scientific Advertising

“For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.”

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Author:Tanith Lee

“Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.”

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Author:Roger Zelazny

“I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project - it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.”

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Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.”

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Author:Tim Lebbon

“I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.”

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Author:Tim Lebbon

“There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordtensionhas an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endis the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?”

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Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.”

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Author:Lyle Lovett

“Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.”

Writing Book Ends Certain Order Struggle Endless Frustrating Unfinished Contingency

Book:The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

“Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.”

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Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.”

Thinking Writing Looks Ends Novel Middle Driving Texas Scenery

Book:How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

Source: How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

“Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

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