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“What is fear, when you are no one Who killed nothingness , with a dagger of emptiness Traversed the agony, for being alive One who crossed the country, is a no man Death is a reward, for a renegade The separation, the life, other syndromes The unification is a dream, unachievable The eyes saw them in distant, untouchable What can't be achieved, will be asked The "ask" for a longing in the life How to spread the life, to walk over For the life, i can't ask, to the death for a dream -Mohammad Hafiz Ganie”

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Book:No Book: Some Forsaken Words

Source: No Book: Some Forsaken Words

“The hardest part of publishing a novel is attracting a reader, and especially one who would give a damn.”

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Author:Veronica Purcell

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.”

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Author:Joseph O'Neill

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”

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Book:Conversations with Robert Graves

Source: Conversations with Robert Graves

“A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.”

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Author:James M. Cain

“The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.”

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Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.”

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Author:Barbara Pym

“NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.”

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Author:Michelle J. Howard

“Novel writing is solitary work.”

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Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.”

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Author:Mohsin Hamid

“If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.”

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Author:Jonathan Tropper

“There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.”

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Author:Khaled Hosseini

“When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

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Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.”

“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.”

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Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.”

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Author:Rick Moody

“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.”

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Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.”

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Author:Kiese Laymon

“I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.”

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Author:Jess Row

“Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.”

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Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

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Book:Not That it Matters

Source: Not That it Matters

“I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

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Book:Reviews

Source: Reviews

“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”

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Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”

“The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.”

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Book:My Miscellanies

Source: My Miscellanies

“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.”

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”

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Author:Stephen King

“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.”

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Author:Larry Niven

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.”

“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”

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Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

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Author:Flannery O'Connor

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