"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."

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"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."

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"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

"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Writing, Creativity, Originality, Observation

"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Writing, Fame, Death, Desire

"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

"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Writing, Expression, Creativity, Voice

"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Writing, Lying, Writer, Writers

"A true piece of writing sets you free."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Writing, Freedom, Creativity, Expression

"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Writer, Heart, Beauty, Expression

"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Writing, Art, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Writer, Duty, Beauty, Anxiety

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"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"

Work

"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."

Change

"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."

Security

"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."

People

"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."

Life

"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."

Experience

"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."

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"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."

"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."

"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."

"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

"A true piece of writing sets you free."

"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

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"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."

"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."

"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."

"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"

"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."

"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."

"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."

"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."

"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."

"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."