"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."

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"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."

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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Creativity, Identity, Profession

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Books, Opportunity, Creativity

"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, History, Research, Fiction, Truth

"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Creativity, Adaptation, Flexibility, Plot

"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Writing, Play

"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, World, Reality, Imagination, Importance

"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Writing, Words

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Literature, Scotland, Culture

"What I don't have in theater is editing."

Julie Taymor, American Director

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"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all."

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"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."

Love

"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."

Life

"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."

Fiction

"I love the most the students with troubled lives."

Love

"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."

Attention

"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."

Character

"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."

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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."

"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."

"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."

"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."

"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

"What I don't have in theater is editing."

"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all."

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"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."

"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."

"I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read."

"Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write."

"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."

"I love the most the students with troubled lives."

"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."

"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."

"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."