"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."

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"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."

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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."

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"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."

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"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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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!."

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate."

John Metcalf, Canadian Editor

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"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

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"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers."

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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

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