"I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps."

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"I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."

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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."

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"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."

Friendship

"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."

Research

"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."

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"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."

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"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."

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"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."

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"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."

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"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."

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