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“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”

Wells Said Literature Invention Mimicry

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Stories Literature Written Love Story Written Word

Author:Nora Roberts

“I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.”

Writing Believe Wells Moments Literature Pleasure Don't Believe

Author:Nora Roberts

“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.”

People Wells Made Reading Literature Effort Fiction Serious One Day Decided Science Fiction Magazines

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”

Writing Wells Enough Seems Literature Realizing Failing One Thing Depends

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.”

World Humans Wells Political Literature Human Beings Influence Economic Crisis Ancient Significance Disputes Economic Crisis

Author:Mo Yan

“My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.”

People World Wells Country Shows Culture Literature Unique Folks Chinese Customs World Literature

Author:Mo Yan

“Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.”

Wells Important Stories Literature Important Things

Author:Kurt Loder

“A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.”

Ifs Wells May Persons Self Literature Thousand Six Accounts Seven Biographies

Author:Virginia Woolf