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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
"It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life."
"Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write."
"Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind."
"Heinlein's Rules for Writers - Rule One: You Must Write. Rule Two: Finish What Your Start. Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order. Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market. Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold."
"I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write."
Explore more quotes by Robert Penn Warren
"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
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