"The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience."

Writing, Truth, Fiction, Reality, Experience

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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Mystery, Storytelling, Secrets, Skill

"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Writing, Description, Delight, Imagination

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Writing, Tragedy

"We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Writing, Life, Religion, Nature

"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Writing, Writer

"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Writing, Identity, Creativity, People

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Writing, Americans, Country

"Pour your heart onto the page."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Writing, Emotion, Expression, Creativity

"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Writing, Magic, Rules

"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Writing, Error, Effort, Understanding

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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

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"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

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"What is art but a way of seeing?"

Art

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

Nation

"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

Life

"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

War

"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."

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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."

"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

"Pour your heart onto the page."

"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

"What is art but a way of seeing?"

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

"A man is only as good as what he loves."

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."

"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."

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"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."