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“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Character Stories Wanted Next Strong Novel Female Decided Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.”

Men Writing Trying Helping Strong Sacrifice Particular Prepared Urges Yearning Possessed

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.”

Men Writing Strong Memories Dark Judgment Call Me

Book:The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.

Source: The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.

“Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Ends Strong Fool Mets Good Things Opposition Pounds Opposing Unintelligent True Things

Author:Randall Jarrell

“I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.”

Writing Littles Long Has Beens Strong Grows Sleep Poor Long Time Affection Enjoyment Exquisite Lament

Book:Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.”

Writing Trying Sometimes Character Happens Strong Female Males Hopefully Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female Strong Character

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?”

Ifs Writing Trying Looks Real Shows Individual Speak Strong Imagination Struggle Heard Cry Danger Becoming Ears Claims Faculty Restless Deaf Eloquent Dictation

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre