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“Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.”

Writing Self Realizing Novel Wonderful Genius Decades Jealous Self Absorbed Being Jealous

Author:Louise Penny

“It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.”

People Want Writing Certain Realizing Type Reader Please

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.”

Writing Wells Made Whole Realizing Tree Produce Industry Direct Yeah Hills Facets Tree Hill

Author:Ashley Rickards

“Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean Stories Seems Realizing Reader Obvious Rationale

Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December

“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

“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.”

Thinking Writing Years Firsts Long Stories Realizing Written Pages Long Time Thirds Fourth Depressing Fifth Fooled

Author:David Sedaris

“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.”

Writing Realizing Loses Creative Pure Evidence Sociology Eden Sociological

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.”

People Writing Artist Song Fun Realizing Music Is Excellent Hobbies Writing Songs

Author:Tila Tequila

“Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.”

Way Writing Humans Made Form Song Realizing February

Author:Dar Williams

“To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.”

Thinking Writing Jobs Realizing Rich Agents

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.”

Writing Past Mother Realizing Son Recalls

Book:Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

Source: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.”

Writing Humans Looks Stills Use Problem Realizing Figures Speech Symbols Aliens Human Life Staring Complexity Haunting Uneasy Figures Of Speech Complexity Of Human

Book:The Educated Imagination

Source: The Educated Imagination

“Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.”

Writing Realizing Decision Poor Week Example Design Products Notebook

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.”

Way Writing Firsts Book Stories Remember Realizing Obsessed Narnia

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Wells Long Book Realizing Written Theory Reader Let Me Sticks Hopefully Entertaining

Author:Charles de Lint

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