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“I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.”

People Way Writing Book Character Fall Enjoy Deals Novel Rich Tragedy Historical Falling In Love Driven Contemporary Triumph Wrong Words

Author:Susan Wiggs

“There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.”

Writing Self Fall Again And Again Parody

Author:Tobias Wolff

“Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'”

Writing Song Fall Love Is Falling In Love

Author:Miranda Lambert

“Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.”

Writing Long Book Fall Wish Walks Nice Feet Right Now Quiet Radio Snow Islands Lazy Being Nice Long Island Long Walks Snow Falling

Author:Jack Kerouac

“You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.”

Writing Persons Fall Wish Down And Sexuality Lists Homosexuality

Author:Stephen Fry

“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Fall Girl Trouble Easier Red Dresses Bars Chairs Tonight Say Anything Fifth Martini Falling Off

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.”

Feels Writing I Can Jobs Fall Left Lucky Squeezing

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.”

Writing Book Fall Music Is Comic Comic Book Hobbies Writing Music Falling Off

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.”

Writing Important Matter Character Moving Fall Passion Forget Novel Mystery Tree Emotional Goes On Ten Falling In Love Insight Lists Psychological Lyrical

Author:Jonis Agee

“Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.”

Thinking Writing Art Inspiration Fall Novel Pieces Influence Taught Scene Art Is Flow Mood Score Echoes Bleeding Interconnected Writing Music Rise And Fall Storyline

Author:Charles de Lint

“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.”

World Writing Heart Seems Fall Waiting Millions Television Poet Terrible West Staring Bombs Temporary Decline Shelter Explosions Rockets

Author:Randall Jarrell

“An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.”

Thinking Writing Mind Believe Kind Book Whole Stories Fall Next Wish My Own Written Unique Add Falling In Love Closest Illustrators Illustrating

Author:Maurice Sendak

“It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.”

Thinking Writing Mean Matter Seems Fall Games Views Attitude Audience Hearing Point Of View Dull Prose Shallow Restless Foul Begets Writing By Writers American Writer

Author:Robertson Davies

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

Writing Mind Fall Falling Down Our Words Crumbs Feasting

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”

Way Writing Fall South Surface South Africa

Book:Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

“You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.”

Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems

“It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.”

Knows Way Writing Hard Fall Wonderful Hard Work Ears Thrill Right Way Arranging

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.”

Writing Firsts Long I Can Remember Fall Lost Walks Forget Dog Periods Exciting Get Real Obsessive Laundry Screwed Up Long Periods Of Time Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Adam Rapp

“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?”

Writing Littles Long Doe Ends Matter Fall Next House Animal Pieces Reader Ideals Sentences Tension Length Interiors Rope Insistence Gauges Rise And Fall Does It Matter

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.”

Way Writing I Can Fall Prayer Praying Miracle Knees Sooner Or Later Veins

Author:Bill Hybels

“Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.”

People Writing Trying Book Stories Remember Fall Process Memories Imagine Seeing Fronts Wall Pages Down And Versions Throwing Adaptation Our Memories Outlines

Author:Akiva Goldsman

“Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.”

Ifs Writing Fall Steps Fronts Building Bridges Steps Forward

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap”

“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.”

Ifs Men Writing Humans Character Fall Social Comedy Groups Worst Depends Ego Behavior Tragedy Impulse One Man Versus Foe Wire Pits Social Life Massage

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.”

Knows Writing Heart Book Fall Reading Ocean Cards Maps Palms Casting Runes

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Heart Might Humanity Fall Force Perfect Consciousness Five Quiet Years Ago Insight Observation Five Years Mature Human Heart Better Than You Sentimentality

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.”

Ifs Knows Writing Persons Book Sometimes Hands Fall Ocean Messages Bottles Shore Throwing Right Person Message In A Bottle

Author:Isabel Allende

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”

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Book:Gold: the final science fiction collection

Source: Gold: the final science fiction collection

“I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.”

People Way Writing Made Song Fall Seeing Risk Pages Sticks Melody Throwing Writing Songs Taking Risks

Author:Jason Mraz

“My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.”

Writing I Can Poetry Fall Sound Lines Ears Pot Cupboards Pots And Pans

Author:Jane Kenyon

“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.”

Writing Long Film Fall Three Actors Stuff Views Millions Video Seconds Bowls Toilets Kitten Good Actors Short Films

Author:Ben Schwartz

“Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.”

Writing Looks Lasts Fall Steps Pieces Sky Paper Overcoming Something New Territory Blank Last Time New You

Author:William Zinsser

“In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.”

People Writing Happens Wanted Fall Talent

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.”

Thinking Way Writing Stories Fall Citizens Adults Falling In Love Writing Stories

Author:Mary Karr

“I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.”

Writing Fall Comedy Falling In Love Insane Comedy Writing Writing Comedy

Author:Pearl Cleage

“You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.”

Writing Fall Dying Ill Malady

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect.”

Writing Sometimes Fall Perfect Journey Falling In Love Imperfect Heartfelt Guessing

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.”

Writing Fall Easy Surprise Surprise Me Writing Music

Author:John Maus

“I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.”

Writing Real Stories Running Fall Courses Individual Rooms Situation Novel Risk Traps Sentimentality Sensationalism

Author:Emma Donoghue

“An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.”

Writing Believe Humans Fall Left I Believe Process Conditions Accounts Clarity Recognition Classic Human Condition Falling Apart Scope Breathtaking

Author:Dennis Covington

“time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.”

Writing Stills Reason Pain Fall Space Drug Affair Alcohol Beloved Hangover Without Pain

Author:Meg O'Brien

“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.”

People Writing Kind Fall Found Easy Difficult Acting Doors Television College Be Good Selling Cables Salesman Fall Into Place Subscription Everything Falls Into Place

Author:Greg Kinnear

“If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Ends Fall Too Much The End Of The Day Nerves Panic Falling Apart

Author:Anne Enright

“You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.”

Knows Writing Humans Has Beens Self Dies Fall Empathy Capacity Cancer Giants Fabric Limitless Spectrum Gogol

Author:Regina Spektor

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