"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Writing, Disease, School

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"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

Chloe Thurlow, British Novelist

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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

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"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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Writing, Clarity, Focus, Advice

"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."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Writing, Passion, Creativity, Joy

"But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

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"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

"As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag."

"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."

"But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?"

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."