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“I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.”

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Author:James Rollins

“Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.”

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Author:James Rollins

“You've got to write for your audience.”

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Author:John Ratzenberger

“Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?”

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Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

“I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!”

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Author:Lily Rabe

“I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.”

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Author:Mary Roach

“I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.”

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Author:Mary Roach

“You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.”

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Author:Mary Roach

“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.”

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Author:Mike Rutherford

“The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.”

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Author:Mo Rocca

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

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Author:Nora Roberts

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

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Author:Nora Roberts

“I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.”

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Author:Nora Roberts

“I need to write to be happy.”

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Author:Nora Roberts

“Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.”

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Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“I don't want my writing to be recognized.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.”

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Author:Stephen Root

“If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.”

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Author:Ted Rall

“When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.”

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Author:Ted Rall

“Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.”

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Author:Trevor Rabin

“I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.”

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Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.”

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Author:Brandon Sanderson

“When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.”

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Author:Brandon Sanderson

“Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.”

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Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.”

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Author:Dana Spiotta

“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.”

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Author:Garth Stein

“When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.”

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Author:Jonathan Stroud

“When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.”

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Author:Jonathan Stroud

“I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.”

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Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.”

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Author:Shane Smith

“I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.”

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Author:Amity Shlaes

“As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.”

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Author:Andy Summers

“I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.”

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Author:Ashlee Simpson

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